Parliament approves levies to stabilize economy

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• KOO 12 years ago

  All taxes have been increased and new ones have been introduced coupled with massive borrowing from this administration yet nothing is improving.They do not understand that the best way is to widen the tax net.Asking those wh ...
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  All taxes have been increased and new ones have been introduced coupled with massive borrowing from this administration yet nothing is improving.They do not understand that the best way is to widen the tax net.Asking those who are already in it to pay more is simply wrong.

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• Kwesi 12 years ago

  It is appreciated efforts by Government and Parliament to shore up the budget. The target area for taxes to do this are all agric based, looking at the list. In one vain areas including cutlasses are included but fertilizer i ...
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  It is appreciated efforts by Government and Parliament to shore up the budget. The target area for taxes to do this are all agric based, looking at the list. In one vain areas including cutlasses are included but fertilizer is excluded with the excuse that the poor will be impoverished . The peasant farmer whose effort feeds the poor but does not require fertilizer but a simple tool like a cutlass will have to be taxed, and that will not impoverish the poor?

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• Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

  These selfish and greedy politicians want to strangle Ghanaians economically while they increase their salaries astronomically.What a cheat!

  These selfish and greedy politicians want to strangle Ghanaians economically while they increase their salaries astronomically.What a cheat!

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• kwam 12 years ago

  The gov't must look elsewhere for this taxes, e.g alcoholic beverages, musical instrument, second hand clothing, imported clothing, etc.

  The gov't must look elsewhere for this taxes, e.g alcoholic beverages, musical instrument, second hand clothing, imported clothing, etc.

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• Hazor 12 years ago

  Ghanaians wake up from your slugger and took it to the street to demonstrate against this levies to stabilize economy approved by parliament to redraw the bill like what brave Ghanaians did against VAT in Kumi Preko demonstra ...
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  Ghanaians wake up from your slugger and took it to the street to demonstrate against this levies to stabilize economy approved by parliament to redraw the bill like what brave Ghanaians did against VAT in Kumi Preko demonstration.If Toll road taxes,Passport fee,Drivers licence fee,corperate taxes,import and export taxes cocoa,gold,timber,diamond,oil and export of electricity power to neigbouring countries,removal of all government subsides from fuels,daily taxes from traders and commercial drivers,educational fee,water and electricity bills,patrol and gas taxes,indirect taxes from workers,donors and foreign aids,loans and begging could not stabilize and economy but this levies can do the magic is insane.By the way do Ghana has economy? What economy

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• Hazor 12 years ago

  Did ghana has economy at all?what economy are they taking about.Are taking about prostitution economy or armed robbery economy.Is it manufacturing economy or jobless economy.Is it Importing and buying and selling economy or s ...
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  Did ghana has economy at all?what economy are they taking about.Are taking about prostitution economy or armed robbery economy.Is it manufacturing economy or jobless economy.Is it Importing and buying and selling economy or stealing economy.Is it corrupt economy or dubious judgement debt payment economy the want to stabilize with this levies?Ghanaians wake up from your slugger if Mahama has wasted Ghc8.7billion + GHc600million making GHc 9.3billion or US$4.6billion and buying bonds of US$1billion and 3billion euros and it could not do any thing for the country then Ghana is doom.If all the taxes that the is taking cannot stabilize the so call economy by the way if we have any at all and this levies can stablilze the economy then we are yet to see it magic and let take back our country as what Egypt did to their non performinig democratically elected president to send a clear message to whoever elected that Ghanaians do not tolerate nonsense and non performing.

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• joe USA 12 years ago

  Sorry state of the country.the parliament and the government does not know what they are doing and they can seize everything that comes in the country they can do anything about the Ghanian economy because they do not know wh ...
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  Sorry state of the country.the parliament and the government does not know what they are doing and they can seize everything that comes in the country they can do anything about the Ghanian economy because they do not know what their doing.It pains me that they can used the port to improve the economy of the country that is What the British start with state of Hon-Kong was the shipping hub that make Hon-Kong the prospect state in Asia and then Korea and Malaysia copy them and then Dubai copy them.In South Korea the started with their port asking the shipper that where Hundyia started making container for the shipping companies.I fell sorry for Ghana because we have leaders who have no clue or vision and no credible plan to rule the country and poor Ghanaian are being cut up between on their visionless leaders.Ghanians should reject the unbearable tax increase.They want to tax everything to the ground

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• ghanaba 12 years ago

  you monkeys are on the right path. you have chocked the economy by crippling local production. now tax every imported raw materials, tax semi processed materials and breakdown every sector of the economy. once every thing is ...
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  you monkeys are on the right path. you have chocked the economy by crippling local production. now tax every imported raw materials, tax semi processed materials and breakdown every sector of the economy. once every thing is done, sell the country to china and take the balance from the americans. swiss banks are ready to swallow any leftovers and this is exactly monkey ghs voted you for. my fellow monkeys are in a rush to vote in 3 years because ndc-npp dictatorship reigns.

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