{"id":988720,"date":"2022-02-13T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/13\/embrace-e-levy-to-expand-the-economy-and-ease-the-burden-of-unemployment-ghanaians-told\/"},"modified":"2022-02-13T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T10:27:28","slug":"embrace-e-levy-to-expand-the-economy-and-ease-the-burden-of-unemployment-ghanaians-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/13\/embrace-e-levy-to-expand-the-economy-and-ease-the-burden-of-unemployment-ghanaians-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace e-levy to expand the economy and ease the burden of unemployment, Ghanaians told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Takoradi, Feb. 12, GNA \u2013 The Western Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Charles Bissue has implored Ghanaians to accept the controversial electronic levy (e-levy) saying it would help expand the economy and ease the burden of youth unemployment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1.21383386.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\n<p>Addressing the media in Takoradi, Mr Bissue bemoaned how many Ghanaians found ways to avoid paying taxes. <\/p>\n<p>According to him, statistics showed that only four per cent of the Ghanaian population paid tax. <\/p>\n<p>This, the Regional Secretary explained that it was due to the notion that taxes collected had not been used for their intended purposes. <\/p>\n<p>He said the introduction of the e-levy was strategic to help curb the economic mess that the COVID-19 pandemic had imposed on the local economy. <\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, urged Ghanaians to embrace such initiative, since it would meet its target of expanding the economy and easing the burden of employment. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Bissue noted that several Ghanaians including the minority in Parliament had opposed many bills which have had positive impacts on the people. <\/p>\n<p>He specifically mentioned the National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL) and other beneficiary projects which he said the minority opposed but have had positive impacts on the lives of Ghanaians. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNPP has always been speaking the facts and reality on the grounds while the opposition party speaks otherwise&#8221;, he added. <\/p>\n<p>GNA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takoradi, Feb. 12, GNA \u2013 The Western Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Charles Bissue has implored Ghanaians to accept the controversial electronic levy (e-levy) saying it would help expand the economy and ease the burden of youth unemployment. Addressing the media in Takoradi, Mr Bissue bemoaned how many Ghanaians found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4936,24,1963,2099,1863,4937,834,464,3746],"class_list":["post-988720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-burden","tag-ease","tag-economy","tag-elevy","tag-embrace","tag-expand","tag-ghanaians","tag-told","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988720","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=988720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}