Previous President, John Dramani Mahama has supported claims by Gabby Otchere Darko that the Electronic Exchange Duty (E-Toll) isn't rounding up the assessed income for government two months after its execution initiated.
In a post on his Twitter page on Monday, June 27, 2022, Mr. Otchere Darko uncovered that the E-Duty is just getting 10% of the projected income.
He noticed that main GHS60million was acknowledged from the normal GHS600million.
"Following 5 months of impasse and slamming, the e-demand, after execution, is conveying just 10% of assessed incomes; our incomes remain extremely low when contrasted with the remainder of the world; obligation levels hazardously high, cedi, as most monetary standards, battling against the US dollar," the main individual from the decision New Devoted Party (NPP) government said in a Tweet.
Portraying Gabby Otchere Darko as an informal Head of the state of Ghana while conveying a discourse at the debut send off of Think Ghana Progress on Thursday, June 30, 2022, ex-President Mahama said the numbers gave on the E-Toll were not nowhere near right.
As per him, information procured show that the duty has been a stupendous failer giving a tad bit of 11% of the extended income for government.
"The e-demand was introduced as the panacea to the financial issues of Ghana. We were as a matter of fact told, that it would empower government lessen getting. Consistent with our expectations and alerts to government about the excessively aggressive income and monetary arrangement targets, accessible first-quarter information show that those objectives won't be met, and this will almost certainly make significantly greater validity emergency for our battered economy.
"For the whole month of May, the much-vaunted e-demand, which was slammed down the throats of Ghanaians, yielded an insignificant GHS 54 million against an objective of GHS 475 million for that month addressing just 11.3%. The period of June has not offered any indication of progress as just about GHS 7.1 million had been gathered by the primary seven day stretch of the month," John Dramani Mahama said while talking on the subject: "Ghana's Obligation Weight; Reflections and Arrangements."
The 2020 official competitor of the NDC added, "These figures show that up until this point, the e-demand has been a staggering disappointment and has become the mother of all disturbance charges and I wish to repeat my prior guarantee that we will nullify it in the absolute first financial plan proclamation to be introduced under the following NDC organization."
In an exhortation to the decision government, John Dramani Mahama asked President Akufo-Addo to do whatever it may take to rebuild the country's obligation to try not to transform Ghana into Sri Lanka.
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