{"id":772918,"date":"2022-01-30T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/why-would-a-listening-government-pass-e-levy-when-majority-of-its-citizens-are-against-it-mp-sosu\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:05:50","slug":"why-would-a-listening-government-pass-e-levy-when-majority-of-its-citizens-are-against-it-mp-sosu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/why-would-a-listening-government-pass-e-levy-when-majority-of-its-citizens-are-against-it-mp-sosu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Would A Listening Government Pass E-Levy When Majority of Its Citizens Are Against It?- MP Sosu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(38, 38, 38);\">The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Lawyer Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu has questioned why a listening and sensitive government will go ahead to introduce E-Levy when survey indicates that majority of its people are against it.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e42ce989d42740e791df3269790b0fac\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Sunday, January 30th 2022, he wrote, <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>This survey on E-levy is so clear. Why would a government which claims to be sensitive and a listening government insist on passing E-levy when the levy is exploitative, retrogressive, discriminatory, and majority of its citizens are against the said levy? Which can juju bi this?<\/strong> &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Xavier Sosu backed his claim by posting a screenshot of a survey conducted by Ghanaweb.com on the E- levy. The survey asked the question, Do you support government&#8217;s proposed E-Levy ?<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/455f577294cc4edba3996fd9e101945f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The survey garnered a total of 18, 805 votes. Out of this, 1,614 representing 8.58% voted yes. 17,060 representing 90.72% voted no and 131 people representing 0.70% indicated that they are indifferent to it. <\/p>\n<p>The E-Levy is a proposed 1.75% tax on mobile money and electronic transactions. It has now been modified to 1.70%. It is yet to be approved or rejected by the Parliament of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nE-levy<br \/>\nFrancis-Xavier Kojo Sosu<br \/>\nNDC<br \/>\nNational Democratic Congress<br \/>\nSosu<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Lawyer Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu has questioned why a listening and sensitive government will go ahead to introduce E-Levy when survey indicates that majority of its people are against it. In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Sunday, January 30th 2022, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772918","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=772918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}