{"id":1220280,"date":"2022-10-10T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/10\/traders-in-kumasi-lock-up-shops-to-protest-fall-of-cedi-high-taxes\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:26:41","slug":"traders-in-kumasi-lock-up-shops-to-protest-fall-of-cedi-high-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/10\/traders-in-kumasi-lock-up-shops-to-protest-fall-of-cedi-high-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders in Kumasi lock up shops to protest fall of Cedi; high taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-266568\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"384\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Shops\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Shops-696x384.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"384\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Shops-696x384.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Shops\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Some traders in the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi have locked up their shops following the woes of the Cedi against the Dollar and its effect on businesses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They are also protesting the high taxes they are paying.<\/p>\n<p>TV3\u2019s Ashanti Regional correspondent William Evans Nkum reported that parts of the business community in Kumasi are shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the merchants here\u201d he said, \u201cdeal in food commodities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/traders-300x248.png\" data- class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266572 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266572\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/traders-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the government to come and dialogue with us. The cost of doing business is high\u00a0 due to tax and the Cedi performance. We have been using our profit margins to pay tax which is not fair,\u201d a trader said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: 3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>[3News Live] Accra named 2023 World Book capital \u2018by UNESCO\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some traders in the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi have locked up their shops following the woes of the Cedi against the Dollar and its effect on businesses. They are also protesting the high taxes they are paying. TV3\u2019s Ashanti Regional correspondent William Evans Nkum reported that parts of the business community in Kumasi are shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[672,6761,2158,2537,993,1797,7144,1007,4181],"class_list":["post-1220280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cedi","tag-fall","tag-high","tag-kumasi","tag-lock","tag-protest","tag-shops","tag-taxes","tag-traders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220280","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=1220280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}