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Cwesi Oteng<\/strong><\/p>\n Award-winning Ghanaian gospel musician, Cwesi Oteng, has shared his opinion on the controversial proposed 1.75% tax on Electronic Transaction Levy, popularly known as E-Levy, by the government.<\/p>\n In an interview with Zionfelix, Cwesi Oteng said his decision to support government policies is not because he is affiliated with the NPP, but because he believes in the policies and their impact on society.<\/p>\n According to him, development is very expensive and it comes with a price that citizens of any country should be willing to pay. \u201cIt\u2019s an avenue for revenue government can have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to Cwesi Oteng, Ghanaians should embrace the proposed E-Levy tax, adding that \u201cpeople don\u2019t like paying tax in our country which has reduced the level of development the ordinary Ghanaian deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n \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 \u201cSometimes when I talk people think I\u2019m talking for the government, but I speak as a citizen. Whenever I pay Momo and they deduct from my account it makes me happy because I feel like I\u2019m contributing something to the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The E-Levy was first announced by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta during his presentation of the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government on November 17.<\/p>\n Since then, the levy that seeks to charge a 1.75% tax on financial transactions that exceed GH\u00a2100 has created a lot of controversies. Although the Majority in Parliament are all for it amid agitations from Ghanaians, the Minority in the House have time and again stressed that they will fight to ensure it is rejected.<\/p>\n BY Prince Fiifi Yorke<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cwesi Oteng Award-winning Ghanaian gospel musician, Cwesi Oteng, has shared his opinion on the controversial proposed 1.75% tax on Electronic Transaction Levy, popularly known as E-Levy, by the government. In an interview with Zionfelix, Cwesi Oteng said his decision to support government policies is not because he is affiliated with the NPP, but because he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740713","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=740713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}