Try not to be discouraged by Mahama, he vowed to cancel CST however he didn't — Oppong Nkrumah
Data Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has expressed that the record of previous President John Dramani Mahama shows that he won't nullify the E-Levy as he has guaranteed assuming he comes to control.
As per him, Mahama, before he became VP in 2008, guaranteed that his administration will drop the Communication Service Tax (CST) which was presented by the John Agyekum Kufour-drove government yet didn't, asaaseradio.com reports.
Oppong Nkrumah added that in addition to the fact that NDC failed to drop the CST as guaranteed it even expanded its rate.
"I simply need to remind Ghanaians that the last time the NDC and Mahama offered a comparable expression was the point at which the Communication Service Tax was presented. He [Mahama] contended against it that the expense of web and talk time will increase 8% in Parliament and later joined the late Prof Atta Mills as his running mate to make a guarantee that they planned to annul the correspondence administration charge.
"Whenever they won power, they pivoted and expanded the rate. Thus, I think there is a reasonable history and no one ought to be discouraged by a portion of these remarks," he is cited to have said on the Asaase Breakfast show.
The clergyman said that the exhibition of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-drove government in its initial three years which saw it convey a large portion of its guarantees before the coming of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the way that it can get the nation out of the ongoing difficulties.
"… the Ghanaian economy is in safe hands, the 2017 to 2019 window shows us obviously that the NPP and the Akufo-Addo organization had the capabilities to bring the Ghanaian economy in the groove again," he said.
Talking at the National Democratic Congress' 'Ghana at a Crossroads' occasion, previous President John Dramani Mahama guaranteed that the Electronic Transfer Levy (E Levy) will be rejected by the following National Democratic Congress, NDC, government.
As indicated by him, the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government is frantically applying oppressive expenses for the purpose of restoring ills related with their botch of the economy.
Mahama focused on that despite the fact that the NDC didn't go against tax assessment on a basic level, "we won't be self important and lounge chair whimsical trademarks to denounce the guideline of tax collection like the NPP did before."
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