{"id":987582,"date":"2022-02-12T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/e-levy-npp-embarks-on-door-to-door-education\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T11:23:13","slug":"e-levy-npp-embarks-on-door-to-door-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/e-levy-npp-embarks-on-door-to-door-education\/","title":{"rendered":"E-levy: NPP embarks on door-to-door education"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henry Nana Boakye, NPP National Youth Organiser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has started a door-to-door public education on the Electronic Transaction Levy popularly, known as E-levy.<\/p>\n

It is part of efforts to help government in educating Ghanaians and to dispel what it described as the vile propaganda against the policy waged by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n

The first of the campaign was held at Nima in the Greater Accra Region to explain the new tax charge on electronic transactions that are more than GH\u00a2100 on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

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the National Youth Organiser of the party, Henry Nana Boakye, described the opposition NDC as hypocrites and only putting up a performance against the e-levy.<\/p>\n

Nana B also narrated how NDC\u2019s propaganda against the e-levy once compelled a certain young entrepreneur Kwame Kyei to lose his livelihood.<\/p>\n

Nana B narrated Kwame Kyei\u2019s story saying \u201cone faithful morning, Kwame Kyei, upon hearing the announcement from the NDC sponsored campaign against the yet-to-be introduced e-levy [tax] that the NPP government is planning to tax MoMo transactions and reduce the money on their wallet, left him in fear and thereby rushing to a Mobile Money vendor nearby to withdraw his hard earned savings of Ghc 1,800.00 just to avoid the alleged \u2018stealing\u2019 from his wallet by government,\u201d Nana B said.<\/p>\n

Kwame Kyei \u201cwithdrew the money which he usually sit in the comfort of his shop and order his wares from Techiman market avoiding the risk of traveling long hours and rather save time and energy and then also make some sales on the day he anticipate the arrival of his Milo, Sugar, Milk, \u2018Alewa\u2019, etc to boost his business decided to travel with the \u00a21,800 and his mobile phone in his pocket to Techiman Market and bring the wares by himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut unlucky Kwame Kyei lost his money and phone to the waiting \u2018pickpockets\u2019 at the Techiman market before he arrived at \u2018Opanin Donyina\u2019s shop\u201d, he recounted.<\/p>\n

Also, the National Nasara Coordinator, Alhaji Aziz Haruna Futah, said the NDC will keep collecting the e-levy from Ghanaians if they lead the country after the levy is passed into law by the ruling party.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThey are only playing politics and propaganda knowing very well that no country can develop without taking tax.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also disclosed that all the stories from the opposition camp concerning the e-levy are false and should be rejected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will not cancel the levy because it was in their 2020 manifesto and they plan to collect it when they come to power,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Aziz Haruna Futah also explained the e-levy isn\u2019t just to widen the tax net but also to see to the development of Ghana, hence urged Ghanaians to support it.<\/p>\n

The leadership of the NPP took the forum to Lapaz to educate Ghanaians on the benefit of the e-levy.<\/p>\n

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