The Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Dr. Clifford Braimah, says the duty climb the organization is requesting could be diminished radically on the off chance that specific costs the organization is troubled with, are eliminated.
As per him, the organization could keep up with its ongoing duties assuming costs like its inheritance obligations, capital ventures, and unlined advances among others, are dealt with by the state.
He noticed that a conversation could be needed to find an advantageous way so such a plan could be had as it is done in different locales.
"… .it could boil down to 0. Indeed. That is the thing I said toward the start, that the ongoing levy assuming a few expense components or cost things are removed, the duties are sufficient," he said on JoyNews' Newsfile on Saturday.
The Water Company is requesting a 334% vertical change in taxes from the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) in the forthcoming tax change window.
As per them, the ongoing taxes are sufficiently not to help their activities.
The Managing Director made sense of that the 334% increment in the levy is simply viewed as excessive because of the way that dissimilar to the power creating and dispersing controlled utility organizations which control various parts of the chain of supply of power, the Water Company controls all of its chain of supply and subsequently should demand a consolidated duty increase for all.
"The design of Ghana Water Company is that we do creation, we do transmission, and we do dispersion. So the three distinct units that you're considering little, assuming you had collected them like we used to have VRA doing all, the tax of Ghana Water Company could not have possibly been viewed as that high comparative with different ones," he said.
He likewise noticed that duty increments being requested by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) additionally influences the Water Company as they are recorded by the ECG as a business substance, thus the requirement for the levy increase.
"Likewise recall that the levy ECG is requesting is a pass-through cost for Ghana Water Company. This means we pay, our frameworks depend on ECG, and we're treated as a business element, not an organization that is running water for you at a lower duty. They charge us as a business substance. So these are things that we can examine and cut the qualities down," he said.
Mr. that's what braimah expressed assuming the public authority was without a doubt keen on making sure that the taxes were diminished radically; it could take up a portion of the expenses.
"So these are things that when we start to examine we'll understand that a portion of these expenses assuming they're taken off, one, assuming that our obligations, they call them heritage obligations are removed, if the unlined credits are no longer unlined to Ghana Water Company, on the off chance that we say that the capital speculations will be dealt with by the express, everything will go down, and our residents are those that dirty our water, so on the off chance that residents assume the liability not to contaminate the water we won't expand the use of synthetic like we are doing as of now in Weija. From 200 packs of aluminium sulfate a day, we are currently utilizing 300. That is an increment to cost and this is residents who are dirtying the climate," he said.
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