{"id":1217194,"date":"2022-10-06T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/e-levy-is-slowing-governments-digital-agenda-telecoms-chamber-warns\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:44:20","slug":"e-levy-is-slowing-governments-digital-agenda-telecoms-chamber-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/e-levy-is-slowing-governments-digital-agenda-telecoms-chamber-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Levy is slowing government\u2019s digital agenda – Telecoms Chamber warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Chief Executive of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Ken Ashigbey, has disclosed that the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) is slowing government\u2019s own digital agenda, per data available to the chamber.<\/p>\n

According to him, if this trend continues, it could derail government\u2019s revenue target from the telecom sector, for this year.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Bank of Ghana\u2019s Regulatory Sandbox Engagement Forum, Mr. Ashigbey urged players in the financial sector to help the government with innovative solutions geared towards generating revenue to the State.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruth be told, if you look at the data E-Levy currently the way it is situated is slowing down own digital agenda and possibly also have a negative impact on government\u2019s own revenues. But, we need to do the thinking for government\u201d.<\/p>\n

He called for support for government to be able to generate more revenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupport government to be able to generate a lot more revenue from the digital environment. If we don\u2019t do that, they will the thinking for us. You will have things like the E-Levy, the way it\u2019s been formatted coming up\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I urge all of us that let\u2019s take advantage of this opportunity that has been given to us to find ways in which we can support government with the challenges that abound. And also to help our people within this economy we find ourselves\u201d, he admonished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chief Executive of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Ken Ashigbey, has disclosed that the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) is slowing government\u2019s own digital agenda, per data available to the chamber. According to him, if this trend continues, it could derail government\u2019s revenue target from the telecom sector, for this year. Speaking at the Bank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4826,3038,3523,2099,2001,7662,6924,170],"class_list":["post-1217194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-agenda","tag-chamber","tag-digital","tag-elevy","tag-governments","tag-slowing","tag-telecoms","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}