RECONSIDER LAWS ON TAXING CHURCHES – JOYCE ARYEE

February 27, 2022
3 years ago

 

A previous PNDC government Secretary of Information, Joyce Rosalind Aryee, has proposed that government reevaluate burdening churches within the nation.

 

 

Government, in Eminent 2018, gave the clearest sign of the government’s purposeful to assess the churches procuring riches as he conveyed stinging reactions at a few churches.

 

President Akufo-Addo talking at a synod of the Worldwide Outreaching church at the College of Ghana, commented that the church is getting to be a pale shadow of what it utilized to be eras prior.

 

He watched that churches have moved from charity to success and said calls for churches and their pioneers to be burdened are justifiable.

 

 

This government imply sparked a warmed talk about over whether churches ought to pay charges or not.

 

A school of thought accepts that since churches produce pay from offerings and other money related picks up, they ought to be compelled by the state to pay charges.

 

Others too contend that since churches work as devout entities, they ought to not be mandated to pay charges.

 

 

Talking in an meet on Asaase Radio on Friday, she said in spite of the fact that such laws on the saddling of churches are display in other nations like Britain, “they have a charities board, and there are brief rules.”

 

Subsequently, “In case we need to start something like that, there ought to be a edge and after that monitoring.”

 

“So, what I am saying is that in the event that we need to alter the enlistment rules, or on the off chance that we need to set up a charities commission, at that point we ought to do that. In the event that we think from the recognition of what is happening, perhaps they shouldn’t be enrolled as companies restricted by guarantee, at that point I think we ought to do so,” she clarified.”