{"id":737395,"date":"2022-01-06T11:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/im-happy-whenever-deductions-are-made-on-my-momo-transactions\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:02:36","slug":"im-happy-whenever-deductions-are-made-on-my-momo-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/im-happy-whenever-deductions-are-made-on-my-momo-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Happy Whenever Deductions Are Made On My MoMo Transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Ghanaian gospel musician, Cwesi Oteng has shared his opinion on the controversial topic of discussion; electronic levy also known as E-levy.<\/h2>\n<p>In November 2021, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta announced that the government intends to introduce an electronic transaction levy (e-levy) to improve development. According to him, the 1.75% e-levy is to widen the tax net and rope in the informal sector.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-read-also-i-was-sleeping-when-mps-were-fighting-in-parliament-over-e-levy-alban-bagbin\">READ ALSO: I Was Sleeping When MPs Were Fighting In Parliament Over E-Levy- Alban Bagbin<\/h4>\n<p>The e-levy proposed is suggested to take effect on 1 February 2022 and has been opposed by Ghanaians. Gospel Oteng, a staunch member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in a recent interview with Zionfelix has disclosed that he is always happy when he is deducted.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, development is expensive, hence taxing the people is relevant to promoting development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people have issues with it but I think that development is expensive. I was in Dubai and I spent $300 just by entering and coming out of a shop.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: There Are So Many Jobs In Ghana But The Youth Are Lazy \u2013 CEO Reveals<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cSometimes when I talk people think I\u2019m talking for the government but I speak as a citizen. I think it\u2019s an avenue for revenue that the government can have. People don\u2019t like taxes in our country,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He continued; \u201cI think we should embrace it\u2026whenever I pay MOMO and they deduct from my account it makes me happy because I feel like I\u2019m contributing something to the country.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"3206cd96aad7ee1630c29721-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n          var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n          if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n          js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n          js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1009694476028322&version=v10.0\";\n          fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n        }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian gospel musician, Cwesi Oteng has shared his opinion on the controversial topic of discussion; electronic levy also known as E-levy. In November 2021, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta announced that the government intends to introduce an electronic transaction levy (e-levy) to improve development. According to him, the 1.75% e-levy is to widen the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737395","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=737395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}