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Yes in the US laws work. There's probity and accountability and no one is above the law even the president and his "brother". But, In my dear mother land, Ghana, it's opposite. Monkey dey work bamboo they chop. Count us Out ...
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They pay enough duty on cars and other personal items imported into Ghana, for you guys to chop and not account to anybody. Any attempt to tax them further will fail. What a visionless government !
RAISE DUTY TOO HIGH AND IT'S CHEAPER FOR US TO SEND WESTER UNION, ESPECIALLY AS CEDI FAILS FURTHER
They steal and build houses and buy mutiple houses. Thieves looking for more money to steal.
WHY NOT EXTEND TO GHANAIANS IN MALI TOO.
Kwaku, sorry, but I had to correct you on the old pidgin adage you used. The younger folks must not be lost on the origina andl correct version. So, please, let me correct you on it. The correct version goes like this: "Monk ...
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Rio Tinto and Chinalco sign $20bn Guinea iron ore deal
Simandou project
Big mining companies have been eyeing the iron ore deposits at Simandou for many years.
Mining shares hit by iron ore slump
China agrees Guinea ...
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That's why Africans will remain poor as long as these stupid agreements are entered into. Here, they have given away their natural resources that's supposed to lift them out of poverty for a pittance. Whoever signed that agre ...
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The saddest part of it all is that the expected improvement in the people's Economic situation that they claim could lift the Nation out of poverty would not last.
Meanwhile, the transient taste of luxury could trigger an ...
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The Lone Star state is good at managing her finances; no body can misappropriate the State of Texas' s finances and go free! Not even the governor.
Until we become a nation of no-nonsense and you coined tax instruments will ...
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Stop the looting, be productive and stop thinking about how to tax non-resident Ghanaian hard-earned dollar for any attempt to tax will fail since unlike the American citizen, the Ghanaian does not benefit much from governmen ...
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THIS LOW LIFE MAHAMA IS GETTING DESPRATE FOR MONEY IS NOW ATTCKING GHANA FALKS FOR TRYING TO MAKE INVESTMENTS AND MAKE MONEY SHAME ON YOU MAHAMA STEP DOWN
Motherfuckers, you deny full citizenship and the kind of Offices Ghanaians resident abroad can have in their own country of birth, and you come up with this nonsense of taxing them of their earnings. How idiotic and stupid ca ...
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If you want to copy the U.S. tax system, go all the way by making sure everybody, including all ministers and parliamentarians and the president pay taxes. But most importantly, since you want to copy the U.S. you should with ...
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WHAT SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW IF YOU PAY IN TOO MUCH TAX IN USA YOU GET SOME BACK..FAMILYS FILING TOGETHER CAN GET REFUNDS OF $3000 OR MORE DEPENDING ON HOW MANY CHILDREN THEY HAVE OR THEIR FAMILY INCOME
We are not even allow to vote in diaspora like US citizens spread around the globe.
these guys are so dum it unbelievable this hostility is so amazing -I'm closing down all accounts with those stupid Ghanaian banks
These people are unbelievable, it's not even funny any more.
Who came up with this stupid idea. This does not make sense.
I expect the same people who talked against ballot boxes availability abroad for Ghanaians to vote to come out and speak against this new tax proposal. I have a registered business in USA and hold Ghanaian passport, but will ...
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These so called Doctorate Degree holders many times exhibit their stupidity in a way that, former Presidential aspirant, Mame Donkor an illiterate sometimes make sense of her ideas than these people.
First, with the US Nat ...
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bank of Ghana cawards and ndc want to get ahold on your account here
in Ghana and be RUTS FOR THE USA IRS DEPT,so run on the banks on Ghana take your money and leave this losers in Ghana go invest somewere else
YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAX NDC MEMBERS THAT HAVE PUT THEIR GAINS IN T-BILLS BRINGING A HUGE 25% COMPARED TO USA'S 1%
The Gov't is paying out 25% interest rates, bloated contracts,unchecked misinvoicing of exports, hell they don't even know how much oil is being shipped out. Then you wonder why you are broke. WAKE UP, YOU RUDDERLESS BUNCH OF ...
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BUT STILL NO MONEY FOR THE POOR PEOPLE IN GHANA. WHAT IS THAT?
As it is now, Ghanaians in diaspora are directly contributing to the availability of Foreign Exchange at home via remittances. Seeking to tax them now might reduce the amount they could send home in total.
The Government ...
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As it is now, Ghanaians in diaspora are directly contributing to the availability of Foreign Exchange at home via remittances. Seeking to tax them now might reduce the amount they could send home.
The Government might thi ...
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Knowing how our Officials often twist the established Laws to their whimsical convenience, our Dual-Citizens must be on the lookout for how any such Diasporans-targeted Taxes would be applied to them.
We have not even hea ...
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Has Government of Ghana heard America saying they are protecting our interest abroad when ever there is invation or civil war in a country where it citizens has businesses?America or Us government support its citizens conpani ...
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The focus should be on those of us educated with the country's resources and working and living opulent lifestyles abroad.
Under this focus, I should be among the first to be taxed!
Not my dime. I will not volunteer my hard-earned money to incompetent idiots in Ghana who spend tax money on luxury that my representatives here in the US do not even enjoy.
How can you disenfranchise a Ghanaian living in USA by not allowing him/her to vote but demand him to pay tax? Are you out of your mind?
Take your vote and we will keep out money. Now, you're extending the CREATE, LOOT and ...
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We're not fools; over our dead bodies. What you've stolen is enough.
THIS GHANA CONSTITUTION has to be changed immediately we have a new government. This president should have been removed by impeachment or by a vote of no confidence. These acts are signs of desperation. Foreign exchange earne ...
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what has GHANA done for me? zilch
The people who benefit from the largesse must be the beneficiaries of this nonsensical tax.
I WILL TRY MY BEST TO CONVINCE GERMAN DOCTORS TO INVITE MAHAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FOR MENTAL CHECK-UP. WITH ALL WAYOME´S MONEY, GYEEDA, SADA, SUBA, OIL AND GOLD ANOTHER TAXES ON GHANAIANS ABROAD? NO THIS IS CRAZY THIS GO ...
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LOW LIFER MAHAMA ACTING AND OBYING US IRS LAWS RIGHT HERE IN GHANA CAN YOU GUYS SEE HOW LOW LIFER THIS MAN IS?GOD HELP US IN GHAN WITH SUCH A LUNATIC LEADER-
They should pay more tax so you give it to woyome then you fools can share.
Why should any hustler outside Ghana pay tax,for our politicians to steal?
Americans living outside America are happy to pay tax to their Government,because their Government will account for every cent they take from their ...
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THE ONLY GHANIANS WHO HAVE BUSINESS OUT OF GHANA ARE THE CORRUPT MINISTERS AND THEIR KANGAROO PARLIAMENT. THEY STEAL OUR GOLD, DIAMOND AND MONEY. I WILL TELL HIM WHAT TO DO " TAX EVERYONE WHO WORKS FOR THE GOVERNMENT, WHO HAS ...
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Ghanaians, please do just to yourself by voting Mahama and his cronies out of power.
These people (Mahama Govt) lack vision. Fine they have some sense trying to copy from US IRS, but isn't the US Law applicable to all US ...
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