{"id":55310,"date":"2023-04-06T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/06\/john-dumelo-criticises-new-10-tax-on-betting\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:15:29","slug":"john-dumelo-criticises-new-10-tax-on-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/06\/john-dumelo-criticises-new-10-tax-on-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dumelo criticises new 10% tax on betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\"  alt=\"\" title=\"John-Dumelo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/John-Dumelo.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/John-Dumelo.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"John-Dumelo\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghanaian politician and movie actor, John Dumelo, has expressed his anger over the introduction of a 10% tax on betting winnings in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, Dumelo criticized the government for not doing enough to create jobs for the youth, and for imposing additional financial burdens on them.<\/p>\n<p>In his tweet, Dumelo said, \u201cCreate jobs, you won\u2019t create. The youth have created their own jobs too ahhh, you want to tax their winnings\u2026..continue. That day will come when the youth will rise against you. It will be too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Create jobs, you won\u2019t create. The youth have created their own jobs too ahhh, you want to tax their winnings\u2026..continue. That day will come when the youth will rise against you. It will be too late.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Farmer John (@johndumelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johndumelo\/status\/1643900503472873473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dumelo\u2019s comments come after the government\u2019s introduction of a 10% tax on all betting, games of chance, and lottery winnings, as well as a 20% tax on the revenue of betting companies operating in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian politician and movie actor, John Dumelo, has expressed his anger over the introduction of a 10% tax on betting winnings in the country. Taking to Twitter, Dumelo criticized the government for not doing enough to create jobs for the youth, and for imposing additional financial burdens on them. In his tweet, Dumelo said, \u201cCreate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>John Dumelo criticises new 10% tax on betting - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/06\/john-dumelo-criticises-new-10-tax-on-betting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Dumelo criticises new 10% tax on betting - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghanaian politician and movie actor, John Dumelo, has expressed his anger over the introduction of a 10% tax on betting winnings in the country. 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