Evans Otomfuor, the General Secretary for the Mobile Money (MoMo) Agents Association, has disclosed they never received any response from the Finance Ministry after sending several letters to them for an engagement on the e-levy.<\/p>\n He made these submissions on Happy98.9FM\u2019s Epa Hoa Daben political show, the association has taken the necessary steps in their capacity to reach out to policy makers but to no avail when they are major stakeholders to be affected by the introduction of the e-levy.<\/p>\n \u201cWe served letters to the Ministry of Finance to grant us audience and there was no feedback till date. We handled both the Majority and Minority groups letters as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n However, there has been absolute no reaction from the sector ministry to consider the association\u2019s standpoint on the e-levy.<\/p>\n Asked if they were invited for the town hall meeting led by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta to address concerns on the e-levy he responded in the negative. <\/p>\n \u201cWe did not received any letter from gov\u2019t which indicated that we were invited as stakeholders. We were aware of the town hall meeting courtesy of social media platforms. We never received any official invitation from gov\u2019t as a major stakeholder in the industry,\u201d Evans Otumfour told Don Kwabena Prah.<\/p>\n \u201cSince the introduction of the e-levy, we have never been engaged by the Finance Minister. No gov\u2019t institution has also taken our concerns into consideration. Therefore from the onset there has been a clear denial from gov\u2019t to recognize us as important stakeholders. If that has been well spelt out then why should we keep pushing?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the government on Thursday, January 27, 2022 held a major Town Hall Meeting on the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy).<\/p>\n The exercise forms part of series of engagements aimed at explaining the basics and importance of the E-levy transaction as well as take feedback and inputs from relevant stakeholders that will inform government on the implementation of the levy.<\/p>\n The E-levy is a new tax measure introduced by government in the 2022 Budget on basic transactions related to digital payments and electronic platform transactions. This means a charge of 1.75% will apply to electronic transactions that are more than GH\u00a2100.00 on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Business News of Saturday, 29 January 2022 Source: happyghana.com Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta Evans Otomfuor, the General Secretary for the Mobile Money (MoMo) Agents Association, has disclosed they never received any response from the Finance Ministry after sending several letters to them for an engagement on the e-levy. He made these submissions on Happy98.9FM\u2019s Epa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3146,661,366,2099,225,3584,2427],"class_list":["post-771774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-agents","tag-association","tag-concerns","tag-elevy","tag-govt","tag-listen","tag-momo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771774","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=771774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Finance](\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/544\/54417442.295.jpg\" "\\"Finance")
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n