{"id":774317,"date":"2022-01-31T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/as-a-ghanaian-have-you-ever-considered-these-things-about-the-e-levy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:23:57","slug":"as-a-ghanaian-have-you-ever-considered-these-things-about-the-e-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/as-a-ghanaian-have-you-ever-considered-these-things-about-the-e-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"As A Ghanaian Have You Ever Considered These Things About The E-Levy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3717b503e6824bcf99ebbdd551d4f001\"\/>Every Ghanaian without a political thinking cap will soundly be considering the noise around the E-Levy.<\/p>\n<p>They will surely consider why both the New Patriotic Party [NPP] and the National Democratic Congress [NDC] are battling it out in Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The insistence and persistence from the ruling party NPP to make it a working scheme for the country and the confident opposing force of the NDC on how they are resolute on crashing that agenda is quite worrying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are they [NPP and NDC] have to lose should parliament approve this initiative?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s truly seeking the good of the country&#8217;s economic development?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Parliament serving as the ground of determining the faith of the E-Levy, I beg to differ that the E-Levy will be chocked and sandwiched between the espionage of the NDC and the unwavering objective of the NPP in seeing it becoming a reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance has confirmed that it has indeed contracted a private  to &#8220;collect, track and monitor&#8221; the controversial E-Levy at a cost of Ghc242million paid to the .<\/p>\n<p>As declared by the Deputy Minister of Finance John Kumah where Ghc242Million will be paid to the new  for &#8220;monitoring, tracking, and validation of all the receipts that will come from the e-levy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party led by the finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta can&#8217;t ascertain that oil money, VAT, and others couldn&#8217;t stop us from borrowing, but E-Levey, which you are projecting to get 6.9billion cedis will let the government stop borrowing from other monetary firms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should Ghanaians be worried over the desperation of the NPP government in streamlining this E-Levy in functioning?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should Ghanaians doubt the sole purpose of the E-Levy?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party have borrowed over 220billion cedis within 5yrs and couldn&#8217;t use that money to solve the economic problems.<\/p>\n<p>However, the New Patriotic Party wants Ghanaians to believe that a projected amount of 6.9billion cedis from E-Levy will solve our economic problems, serving as a facelift and an elixir to resurrect\u00a0the fast-falling decline of the Ghanaian economy as declared by the FITCH data research firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whatsoever the outcome of this important debate in Parliament, Ghanaians must be well enough ready to accept it in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BATACH (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 \/>\nGhanaian<br \/>\nNPP<br \/>\nNational Democratic Congress<br \/>\nNew Patriotic Party<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Ghanaian without a political thinking cap will soundly be considering the noise around the E-Levy. They will surely consider why both the New Patriotic Party [NPP] and the National Democratic Congress [NDC] are battling it out in Parliament.\u00a0 The insistence and persistence from the ruling party NPP to make it a working scheme for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774317","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\/774317","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=774317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}