{"id":773518,"date":"2022-01-31T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/you-are-just-robbing-people-by-using-your-authority-imani-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T07:02:13","slug":"you-are-just-robbing-people-by-using-your-authority-imani-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/you-are-just-robbing-people-by-using-your-authority-imani-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Just Robbing People By Using Your Authority &#8211; IMANI Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">The Vice President with IMANI Centre for Policy Education (IMANI Africa), Selorm Branttie, has asserted that if the government don&#8217;t tax only on value added tax, then the government is using it&#8217;s authority to rob people.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/85275c5d2c5a4d1d8df30fbeb35bfd79\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">In a statement shared on his official Facebook page on Monday, 31st January 2022, he wrote;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You tax only on value added. Otherwise, you are just robbing people by using your authority. Your economy won&#8217;t grow. You will have more poor people who can&#8217;t save, and those who can&#8217;t invest, and eventually you will have to borrow more to feed them because you won&#8217;t even let them earn enough to tax them again.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The comments of Selorm Branttie comes as a background to the recently most talked about E-Levy which initially seeks to introduce 1.75% tax on all mobile money and electronic transactions. Although it has been reduced to 1.70% after further consultation by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta but Parliament of Ghana is yet to approve or reject it. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/416f41046de2484bbd40cff610d4b5de\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The IMANI Vice president and director at mPedigree Network, Selorm Branttie has been advocating against E-Levy in most of his post. He joins in the list of other prominent Ghanaians who don&#8217;t support the E-Levy.<\/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\">\nIMANI<br \/>\nIMANI Centre for Policy Education<br \/>\nSelorm Branttie<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President with IMANI Centre for Policy Education (IMANI Africa), Selorm Branttie, has asserted that if the government don&#8217;t tax only on value added tax, then the government is using it&#8217;s authority to rob people. In a statement shared on his official Facebook page on Monday, 31st January 2022, he wrote; &#8220;You tax only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773518","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\/773518","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=773518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}