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COMPARE TAXES SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES. BLOCK TAX LOOPHOLES. COMPARE COUNTRIES THAT ARE DOING VERY WELL WITH THEIR TAX SYSTEMS. REDUCE THE PUBLIC SECTOR WAGE BILL WHICH IS HUGE TO ONE THIRD. US ...
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but most of us have jobs for 40 hours per week..even people in fast food and nurse aide make $7.25 per hour...
This tax is long overdue. In some industrialized countries the highest tax bracket on profits of businesses is 35%. 5% is a modest rate. But will the Ghanaian parliament act? I doubt! We have bunch of morons in parliament. T ...
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Mahama looks confused in everything he is doing.
The issue of revenue geeneration locally is not due to unwillingness of the people to pay but more to do with ineffective and inefficient collection mechanisms. The absence of ...
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the way to prosperity is not how much extra tax we collect from the few but how well we make sure that all those who are supposed to pay taxes pay even after several years of evasion and how well we use the little we collect ...
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Thats why you have to be a drug dealer or whore not to pay tax here..You pay your bills in ghana and keep none or very small amount in bank to look like you have fast food job
What is the tax supposed to stabilize? The sources of funds for politicians to steal from?
I cant believe the economic leaders we have, if tax is a percentage of of profits, then it is assumed that the more profits businesses make, the more money Government gets. Ghana is seen as one of the fast growing countries i ...
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5 percent more tax is not the answer. Block all the loopholes and the wastages in the system.5 percent for what? To pay more dubious judgement debts, or to expand the non existing guinea fowl project. Use what you collect wis ...
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