{"id":987967,"date":"2022-02-12T17:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/kadjebi-residents-share-divergent-views-on-e-levy\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:35:25","slug":"kadjebi-residents-share-divergent-views-on-e-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/kadjebi-residents-share-divergent-views-on-e-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadjebi residents share divergent views on E-Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Kadjebi (O\/R), Feb. 12, GNA – Some residents of Kadjebi have shared diverse views on the government\u2019s decision to introduce taxes on the electronic transaction (e-levy) in the country.<\/p>\n
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While some were of the view that the proposed levy be abandoned entirely, and greater consultation done, others want the rate to be reduced for acceptance.<\/div>\n
Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, during the presentation of 2022 Budget Statement in Parliament on November 17, 2021, announced the introduction of 1.75 per cent e-levy, which has since been the major topic for political discourse in the country.<\/div>\n
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Kadjebi in the Oti Region, Mr John Mills Adisi, a Businessman said the E-Levy is good as it would help generate enough revenue to develop the country, but timing was bad due to the economic hardship.<\/div>\n
He said, \u201cIf Members of Parliament want Ghana to develop, then, they should pass the E-Levy bill into law.\u201d<\/div>\n
Mr Adisi was, however, of the view that more education should be carried out on the importance and benefits of the levy for the citizenry to appreciate and pay it.<\/div>\n
He also called for the reduction of the e-levy from 1.75 per cent to 1 per cent; adding \u201cobjectively taxation is not bad, but the target is too high\u201d, so the purpose might not be achieved.<\/div>\n
Mr Benjamin Boamah, a Mobile Money Vendor, disagreed with the e-levy policy because it would overburden the people who were struggling to make an end to meet.<\/div>\n
He said the policy would throw out the Mobile Money vendors out of business because their client would decide to keep their monies at home rather than the mobile money wallet.<\/div>\n
Mr Frank Ofori, a Teller, said he supported the E-Levy policy, but the rate should be reduced to 1.25 per cent since the Telcos Companies have reduced theirs to 0.75 per cent.<\/div>\n
This, he said, would make the calculation very simple for everyone.<\/div>\n
He said a tax of 1.25 per cent plus 0.75 per cent would make up 2 per cent.<\/div>\n
Ms Francisca Appreku, a Cosmetic Seller, says the policy is bad and should be abandoned.<\/div>\n
She said her business would collapse since she mostly transacted via mobile money.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kadjebi (O\/R), Feb. 12, GNA – Some residents of Kadjebi have shared diverse views on the government\u2019s decision to introduce taxes on the electronic transaction (e-levy) in the country. While some were of the view that the proposed levy be abandoned entirely, and greater consultation done, others want the rate to be reduced for acceptance. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4899,2099,2115,406,1967,3847],"class_list":["post-987967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-divergent","tag-elevy","tag-kadjebi","tag-residents","tag-share","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987967","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=987967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}