{"id":1253008,"date":"2022-11-17T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/livestream-pm-express-business-edition-discusses-setbacks-in-e-levy-implementation\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:12:24","slug":"livestream-pm-express-business-edition-discusses-setbacks-in-e-levy-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/livestream-pm-express-business-edition-discusses-setbacks-in-e-levy-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestream: PM Express Business Edition discusses setbacks in E-levy implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-11-17-at-18.10.53-819x1024.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy) was introduced by government as an important tax handle to enable all Ghanaians to contribute to the development of the country.<\/p>\n<p>It was expected to raise 600 million cedis a month. However, as at July this year only 10% of that was realised per month.<\/p>\n<p>Key stakeholders in the implementation of the tax policy are the telecommunication companies.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ken Ashigbey is the CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, the umbrella organisation of the telcos.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, George Wiafe hosts Dr. Ashigbey to discuss the challenges besetting the policy and the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"qlzLfD4_6lg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JoyNews Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlzLfD4_6lg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; overflow:hidden;margin:20px auto; width:100%; min-height:280px;\">\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy) was introduced by government as an important tax handle to enable all Ghanaians to contribute to the development of the country. It was expected to raise 600 million cedis a month. However, as at July this year only 10% of that was realised per month. Key stakeholders in the implementation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2009,11272,1558,2099,2310,258,21369,16852],"class_list":["post-1253008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-discusses","tag-edition","tag-elevy","tag-express","tag-implementation","tag-livestream","tag-setbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253008","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=1253008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}