{"id":973630,"date":"2022-02-02T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/breaking-news-president-akuffo-addo-breaks-silence-on-e-levy-brouhaha\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:36:26","slug":"breaking-news-president-akuffo-addo-breaks-silence-on-e-levy-brouhaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/breaking-news-president-akuffo-addo-breaks-silence-on-e-levy-brouhaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: President Akuffo Addo breaks silence on E-levy brouhaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1e7de135c35b48e5afc8290113d0c1f5\"\/><strong>President Akufo-Addo has repeated his administration&#8217;s determination to pass the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-demand).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As per him, the public authority in its offered to decrease the weight on Ghanaians during the hotness of the COVID-19 did some consumption, and that has become vital for certain actions to be set up to fill those holes made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Incomes during 2020\/2021 went down impressively due to the dialing back of the financial exercises that came from the COVID-19. Simultaneously, government, to make all the difference for the nation, brought about certain consumptions on the free water, the free power. These were the unavoidable costs that administration needed to make,&#8221; President Akufo-Addo uncovered while tending to conventional pioneers from Dzodze in the Volta area on Tuesday, first February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He proceeded &#8220;These are the endeavors that we are currently making which are being opposed by the resistance yet we will attempt to lose the talk. That is the explanation it has become vital for us to utilize these actions like this renowned duty which has caused such a lot of pointless controversy; by the by, we would proceed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo added that in spite of the &#8220;not set in stone to endure to ensure that we track down the resources to address a portion of the issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has dismissed a decrease of the Electronic Transaction duty to 1.5 percent from 1.75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent decrease was postponed during interviews with the minority on Friday after Thursday&#8217;s gathering finished uncertainly.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority drove by its leader Haruna Iddrisu as per Starr News sources dismissed the proposition contending the decrease is immaterial.<\/p>\n<h2>Like and share<\/h2>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Bordexa (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\">\nAkuffo Addo<br \/>\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nBreaking News<br \/>\nE-levy<br \/>\nGhanaians<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has repeated his administration&#8217;s determination to pass the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-demand). As per him, the public authority in its offered to decrease the weight on Ghanaians during the hotness of the COVID-19 did some consumption, and that has become vital for certain actions to be set up to fill those holes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973630","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\/973630","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=973630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}