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FULL SPEECH: Government abolishes ‘Kayayei tax’ in maiden budget

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (INVISIBLE FORCE) 7 years ago

    ###AUTHOR: ABENA-------NDC has ruled Ghana for so many years .When they were given the Opportunity to find oil for us, they couldn't do it.NPP came for just 8 years and found oil for Ghana .We all know how NDC spent the oil m ...
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  • Yakubu 7 years ago

    There are far too many empty heads like you in this forum and it makes sensible debate extremely difficult. Please do everyone a favour and stay away. Thanks and have a good day.

  • joe boyy 7 years ago

    i think if this is true, i will praise this govt small, taxing kayaye was something i never back of

  • Blantyne 7 years ago

    Wicked Mahama taxing the poor head potter to feed the rich. Fire don burn them

  • Villager 7 years ago

    ask your brothers and sisters abroad if they pay taxes. ask how much they earn. don't ask what work they do

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

    Thank Akuffo Addo for such a brilliant and humane decision. I have always pitied KAYAYES. Let Addo build the dams,and factories so they shall not migrate from the North to the South to suffer.
    Their chiefs and politicians sh ...
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  • Nana 7 years ago

    God BLESS YOU NANA ADDO
    Change has finally arrived
    NDC is better because they know this is the end of ther party
    Say BYE BYE to the crooks NDC

  • Nana 7 years ago

    Bitter I meant ***

  • kyekyeku 7 years ago

    NDC will never come to power again

  • Adika 7 years ago

    They pay Tax and NDC lots like Woyome steal the money through his clever tactics of judgement debt.Evil men among us yet come Sunday they dress smartly to their various churches because they are lining the pockets of the Chur ...
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  • majid 7 years ago

    UP NPP!!! UP GHANA....I hereby denounce NDC political party from this moment due to my beloved party wickedness. So, its very possible to take off all these taxes and levies? God will punish Seth Tekpe and Ato Forson for our ...
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  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    Not too fast though, lets see the effects. Tax reduction should be better than abolishing. We need to raise money to build our infrastructure. We do not want to be overtaxed but abolishing must be done with care, we nee ...
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  • majid 7 years ago

    Can you mention 5 infrastructures NDC government was able to build with these huge taxes and levies in the past 8 years? No airline, No railway, bad roads, Ports expansion is on credit from foreign donors, French government s ...
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  • yash kugmoor17 7 years ago

    The country makes enough revenue..so all these programs can be rolled out EVEN with abolished taxes....smart citizens of kwame nkrumah's Ghana blindsided by a bunch of dummies...dramani tell us. .what the fuck is smart borro ...
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  • Alostingbine 7 years ago

    How happy i am to here that the 17.5% financial tax services has been abolished. Change has come.

  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    How about the tax and duties on imported vehicles? They are stealing from us, and taking our vehicles! Our hard work, oooh folks at the ports are stealing from us! What are you doing about that?

  • Nana 7 years ago

    That Cannot be Possible
    Sorry
    We cannot hv Free Port in Ghana

  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    Do not need free port. Are you a port worker? Stealing from us?

  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    They tax your imported vehicle 250,000 and when your are unable to pay, they auction it for 10,000. You do not thing that is stealing? We need tax and duty reduction!

  • CORNEY 7 years ago

    That is exactly stealing,they don't pay to cover even the tires of the cars and they take them away,very foolish thing to do which the perpetrators need to be shot in the head but all of them are the same,they will not do an ...
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  • AtiaKramo 7 years ago

    Why buy a car if you can't afford to clear it at the port.

  • Kanawu 7 years ago

    NDC idiots must shut up and learn proper economics not the economics by amissa arthur and ato forson.

  • Nana 7 years ago

    There is Party at Abossey Okai and Makola as we speak
    They r Jubilating

  • TK 7 years ago

    Tweaaaaa which taxes? hahahahahahaha funny. I will not benefit from any of the taxes exempted. They shld have reduce taxes on food, fuel, electricity etc, rather they are encouraging kayayei to stick to carrying loads on thei ...
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  • WISE ASANTE 7 years ago

    419 which taxes? mmmmmmmmmmm we are doom as a country. I will not benefit from any of the taxes exempted. They shld have reduce taxes on food, fuel, electricity, Market tolls, high rent etc, rather they are moyivating kayayei ...
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  • gh 7 years ago

    so when at all will these NDC supporters learn some sense ? Theres free education now, factories in your districts, what else do you want ,. make use of the good things happening and move away from that evil party

  • kofi boateng 7 years ago

    Good one der

  • CHORKOR SCHOOLBOY 7 years ago

    WHAT DID THE NDC USE THOSE TAXES FOR? NDC ONLY USED THOSE TAXES TO BRIBE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA TO VOTE FOR NDC WHICH DID NOT WORK. SHAME NDC.

  • AtiaKramo 7 years ago

    I applaud this finance minister in deed. He wants to kick start the dead ghana economy.

    In fact NDC are ruthless to imposes taxes on kayaye. God will punish them.

  • Osei k. 7 years ago

    If u abolish kayayei tax what have u done. Where in the developed world do we have kayayei. Just get them a better means of livelihood that is decent and more rewarding and Ghanaians will clap for u.

  • nana 7 years ago

    your ndc party did not give them jobs either rather taking from them god will punish all ndc people nonsense

  • CHORKOR SCHOOLBOY 7 years ago

    WHAT DID THE GOVERNMENT SAY ABOUT INSURANCE ON CARS? DID THE GOVERNMENT REDUCE PREMIUM ON CAR INSURANCE? MR MINISTER COME AGAIN.

  • TULA 7 years ago

    This GREAT NEWS FOR 'KAYAEI'; they earn very little and most have no place to even sleep and educate their children and the NDC taxes them and such tax and stills their money as well including OKO Vaderpuje besides this also ...
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  • Med 7 years ago

    It's about time we stop the insults here and talk about the issues facing the country. Every tax cuts for Ghanaians is a good news. But we need taxes for development.in am sure the government is aware of this and as they said ...
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  • Yakubu 7 years ago

    So how was this Kayayei tax collected?
    This is just a headline grabber; I have been observing kayayei girls in front of my brother's business in Adum, Kumasi for some years. Never before have I seen them being asked by anyon ...
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  • Osei k. 7 years ago

    Kayayeism is a blot on our conscience as a nation. The business is demeaning. Over the years governments have over looked these vulnerable members of our society as they are demeaned in their quest to scratch an income for th ...
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  • yyy 7 years ago

    Ah illetracy will kill Ghanaians...Nothing has been reduced yet! All he said will from tomorrow be subjected to debate and scrutiny before it is passed

  • Mary Asomaoh NDC 7 years ago

    I'm no more an NDC again. Wow God bless NPP. I never knew my party NDC was a waste. Wow may God Bless Nana Addo

  • yash kugmoor17 7 years ago

    NDC... a bunch of fools who kidnapped ghana....they didn't care..because even though they claim to be Ghanaians. ..they could easily claim togolese, or Burkina. ..real Ghanaians who love Thierry country are in charge now....L ...
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  • Blantyne 7 years ago

    Togolese and Burkinabes highjacked Ghana for 27 years. Fire don burn them

  • Master 7 years ago

    Kayayei tax is not a government tax.it is from the local assemblies

  • SIMPLY GEORGE 7 years ago

    Even though there is no levy known as "KAYAYEI LEVY , I simply don't care about any removal or abolition of such levy purported to redeem the poor souls of the downtrodden women head porters who toil under the scotching tropi ...
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  • Osei k. 7 years ago

    Kayayei must be off our streets. Lets form a social movement and get this done. Abolishing kayayei levy is an insult to all good people of GH. RATHER ABOLISH KAYAYEI BUSINESS ...ASAP. Get them something better to do.