{"id":773059,"date":"2022-01-30T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/e-levy-go-to-imf-if-it-will-bring-sanity-to-economic-mess-dr-manteaw\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T18:30:33","slug":"e-levy-go-to-imf-if-it-will-bring-sanity-to-economic-mess-dr-manteaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/e-levy-go-to-imf-if-it-will-bring-sanity-to-economic-mess-dr-manteaw\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Levy: Go to IMF if it will bring sanity to economic mess \u2013 Dr Manteaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/805\/80508224.295.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-corruption campaigner and former Chairman PIAC, Dr Steve Manteaw\" title=\"Anti-corruption campaigner and former Chairman PIAC, Dr Steve Manteaw\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\"> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Anti-corruption campaigner and former Chairman PIAC, Dr Steve Manteaw<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Anti-corruption campaigner and former Chairman of the Public Interest And Accountability Committee (PIAC) Dr Steve Manteaw has said that seeking a programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is what will instill sanity into the management of Ghana\u2019s economy, then it should be sought.<\/p>\n<p>For Dr. Manteaw, who has expertise in Public Policy and Communication Strategy, the Government\u2019s refusal to take into consideration concerns raised about the implementation of free Senior High School (SHS), the incidence of corruption and profligacy of the President is to blame for the current predicament of the Ghanaian economy which the Government hopes to resolve through the collection of the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-Levy).<\/p>\n<p>Government functionaries, notably the Finance Minister and the Information Minister, have warned that the Government would be left with no option but to go to the IMF for money if the E-Levy it intends to pass into law and implementation fails to go through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it will take IMF to instill sanity into our economic management, so be it. The situation we find ourselves would have been avoided if the government listened to a little bit to concerns raised about SHS financing, corruption, and profligate lifestyle of the president,\u201d Dr. Manteaw wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Majority Group in Parliament failed to table the E-Levy for consideration in Parliament yesterday, January 28, 2022, after the news made the rounds that it was to be considered. The majority group had earlier reaffirmed their opposition to the E-Levy bill, stressing that it was going to vote against it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-corruption campaigner and former Chairman PIAC, Dr Steve Manteaw Anti-corruption campaigner and former Chairman of the Public Interest And Accountability Committee (PIAC) Dr Steve Manteaw has said that seeking a programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is what will instill sanity into the management of Ghana\u2019s economy, then it should be sought. For Dr. [&hellip;]<\/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":[3599,3010,2099,3074,3705,3624,3706],"class_list":["post-773059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-bring","tag-economic","tag-elevy","tag-imf","tag-manteaw","tag-mess","tag-sanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773059","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=773059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}