The Minority in Parliament needs authorities to reinstate the gathering of avenue tolls.
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu says bringing again avenue tolls will assist authorities in its sales force following modern financial challenges.
Speaking at the ground of Parliament on Wednesday, Haruna Iddrisu stated the problem need to be revisited.
“Must it simply be a coverage directive of the authorities that, it does now no longer need avenue tolls, and we are able to all kowtow to it? No! Everywhere withinside the world, avenue tolls play a function, mainly whilst a public-non-public partnership is wanted to increase avenue infrastructure. Let’s have a take a observe long-time period investment, in which the non-public zone will come and pump their cash for years. How will they recoup their cash whilst authorities is getting rid of avenue tolls”, he lamented.
The Ministry of Roads and Highways on Thursday, November 18, 2021, closed all toll cubicles throughout the u . s . a . following an assertion through the Minister of Finance all through the 2022 finances presentation to the impact that toll series might now no longer exist in Ghana.
Consequently, it added some financial policies, consisting of the imposition of the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy) to reinforce home sales mobilisation and decrease borrowing.
'We've generated handiest 10% of anticipated E-Levy sales so far'
Although authorities had excessive hopes that the E-levy can be the magic wand to Ghana’s sales challenges, in line with a main member of the governing New Patriotic Party, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darkois, the coverage is raking in handiest 10% of anticipated sales .
The authorities started out the implementation of the levy on May 1, 2022, after its preliminary assertion withinside the 2022 finances.
In a sequence of tweets, Mr. Otchere-Darko stated the e-levy, for the reason that its implementation has generated much less than GH¢60 million in place of the predicted GH¢six hundred million.
“After five months of stalemate and bashing, the e-levy, after implementation, is handing over handiest 10% of anticipated sales; our sales stay very low in comparison to the relaxation of the world; debt tiers dangerously excessive, cedi, like maximum currencies, suffering in opposition to the United States dollar.”
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