Former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute and a leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, says the general public is more interested in transparency and how their taxes are spent.
This comment by the NPP kingpin is in line with comments around the controversial Electronic Levy Bill.
As part of ways to revive the economy government introduced the Electronic-levy to undertake developmental projects.
Speaking at the Government Townhall meeting on the E-levy proposal in Tamale on Thursday 10th February 2022, Ken Ofori Atta expressed shock at how graduates of Akufo-Addo’s free SHS are opposing e-levy.
“So when I see the energy especially with which graduates who have gone through free senior high are against E-levy, I ask whether the they are calculating what the cost is. And I ask in truthfulness that does any graduate make more than 8000 or 5000?
“Assuming you are a graduate and you even made 100,000 cedis a year and you transfer all of that through MoMo, how much will that be? 10 per cent of 100,000 is 10,000 , so a third of that is 3000. So 3000 cedis for your roads, for your free education, for all of that and you are up in arms,” he added.
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Similar Townhall meetings have been held in Koforidua and Takoradi to sensitize the public on the E-levy bill.
In a tweet on Friday 11th February 2022, Gabby Otchere-Darko stated that the general public is more interested in how the country’s revenues are being managed better.
“What Ghanaians want to see is greater transparency in how their taxes are spent. Greater evidence in seeing that, indeed, Government is cutting down spending and reducing waste.
“More transparency that our revenues are being managed better. We want to see our taxes working for us,” Gabby tweeted.
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