{"id":58644,"date":"2023-04-17T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/17\/akufo-addo-gives-assent-to-the-three-new-tax-bills\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:12:24","slug":"akufo-addo-gives-assent-to-the-three-new-tax-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/17\/akufo-addo-gives-assent-to-the-three-new-tax-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo gives assent to the three new tax bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"532\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Nana-Akufo-Addo-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nana-Akufo-Addo-2-696x532.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"532\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nana-Akufo-Addo-2-696x532.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Nana-Akufo-Addo-2\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assented to the three revenue bills passed by Parliament on the last day of sitting before Easter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bills are the Excise Duty Amendment Bill 2022, the Growth and Sustainability Left Bill and Income Tax Amendment Bill.<\/p>\n<p>They were passed on Friday, March 31 by a 136-137 majority decision much to the surprise of supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s supporters had called in their MPs to reject all the bills as well as a constitutional instrument proposed by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC).<\/p>\n<p>While the latter was prosecuted, the former failed by one vote.<\/p>\n<p>The three revenue bills are expected to aid government in raking over GH\u00a24 billion a month to boost the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah told Accra-based Joy FM that the bills have been given assent by President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>They are almost certainly laws to aid in the country\u2019s revenue collection efforts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assented to the three revenue bills passed by Parliament on the last day of sitting before Easter. 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They were passed on Friday, March 31 by a 136-137 majority decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58644","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>Akufo-Addo gives assent to the three new tax bills - 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\/17\/akufo-addo-gives-assent-to-the-three-new-tax-bills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Akufo-Addo gives assent to the three new tax bills - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assented to the three revenue bills passed by Parliament on the last day of sitting before Easter. 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