{"id":987509,"date":"2022-02-12T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/proposed-e-levy-is-3-75-not-1-75-haruna-iddrisu\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:58:04","slug":"proposed-e-levy-is-3-75-not-1-75-haruna-iddrisu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/proposed-e-levy-is-3-75-not-1-75-haruna-iddrisu\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed E-Levy is 3.75% not 1.75% &#8211; Haruna Iddrisu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/237\/23749240.295.jpg\" alt=\"Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu\" title=\"Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\"> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has disclosed that the House was yet to debate on the policy principles of the controversial E-Levy.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Minority, as they had already communicated, are against the levy.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing demonstrators who participated in the \u2018Yentua\u2019 demonstration when they presented their petition to the House, the lawmaker said the Minority would ensure that parliament is no longer a &#8216;rubber stamp&#8217; House.<\/p>\n<p>He said on the matter of the E-Levy, the Minority will stand with the Ghanaian populace who are against it.<\/p>\n<p>Haruna Iddrisu said: &#8220;On the matter of the E-Levy there is even more to it than many of you can accept this afternoon. I say without fear of contradiction that the percentage is 3.75% and not 1.75%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He challenged anyone with technical competence who understands the telecom arena to contradict his assertion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no hesitation telling you where we stand. We are against E-levy. We will not support E-Levy, we will support other measures of fiscal consolidation,\u201d Haruna Iddrisu stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has disclosed that the House was yet to debate on the policy principles of the controversial E-Levy. He said the Minority, as they had already communicated, are against the levy. Addressing demonstrators who participated in the \u2018Yentua\u2019 demonstration when they presented their petition [&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":[2099,3281,2166,4872],"class_list":["post-987509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-elevy","tag-haruna","tag-iddrisu","tag-proposed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987509","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=987509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}