{"id":973387,"date":"2022-02-02T09:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/e-levy-is-theft-not-tax-sammy-gyamfi-2\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:19:17","slug":"e-levy-is-theft-not-tax-sammy-gyamfi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/e-levy-is-theft-not-tax-sammy-gyamfi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Levy is theft not tax \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/109\/10927869.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of the NDC\" title=\"Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of the NDC\" width=\"295\" height=\"148\"> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of the NDC<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\"> National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi says it beats his imagination for the current government to introduce a tax on savings.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Electronic Transfer Levy, popularly known as the e-levy, is esoteric in the scheme of taxation in Ghana, describing it as \u201cridiculous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Ghana, under our tax regime, we do not tax savings,\u201d he told Johnnie Hughes on TV3\u2018s New Day on Tuesday, February 1, citing the Value Added Tax (VAT) and others as taxation on expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, concluded: \u201cE-levy is not a tax. It is theft.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">E-levy is theft not tax \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi#Tv3NewDay pic.twitter.com\/ILu5GAGBpk<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #TV3GH (@tv3_ghana) February 1, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of the NDC National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi says it beats his imagination for the current government to introduce a tax on savings. He said the Electronic Transfer Levy, popularly known as the e-levy, is esoteric in the scheme of taxation in Ghana, describing [&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":[2099,835,838,1564,3965],"class_list":["post-973387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-elevy","tag-gyamfi","tag-sammy","tag-tax","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973387","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=973387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}