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Notably among them is the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) introduced in 2022 that generated huge controversy. The Electronic Transfer Levy Act, 2022 (Act 1075) imposes a levy of 1% on all electronic transfers.
History is replete with all manner of politicians who created a cause célèbre (a controversial issue that attracts a great deal of public attention), and then rode it like a rampaging horse to political power. And history is similarly replete with politicians who gifted their opponents the cause célèbre with which to take them out of power. One such cause célèbre seems to have cropped up naturally (unnaturally?) around the “Fix the Country” campaign, and its counter-campaigners, on the recently introduced tax increases in Ghana, which has led to increments in petrole...
“Fixing and Unfixing It”- Unpacking the Lazy, Unproductive Politicking of Ghana Listen to article It is a truism that in politics, creating mass hysteria can be beneficial by way of the ballot box. If one can find an emotionally charged theme, sum it up with a few catchphrases and put it on the radar of the mass consciousness, one can ride it to the highest political pinnacle. Such a politician can use this emotionally charged issue like the red flag of a matador waved in front of a charging bull, and lure the bull (the public), literally to the death.
COVID-19 levy, taxes on fuel take effect from today May 1 Listen to article Three of government’s new taxes have taken effect, beginning today, Saturday, May 1. These new taxes are as a result of the imposition of an Energy Sector Recovery Levy of GHS 20 pesewas per litre of petrol/diesel and 18 pesewas per kg on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and a Sanitation and Pollution Levy of GHS10 pesewas per litre of petrol and diesel. Also taking effect is the COVID-19 Health Recovery Levy Act, 2021 (Act 1068) and the Energy Sector Levy (Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act 1064). In an earlier statement, ...
The new taxes introduced by the government in the 2021 budget are to come into effect in May this year, the Ghana Revenue Authority has announced. Presenting the budget on behalf of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, on Friday, 12 March 2021, told Parliament that the government was introducing a 10p sanitation and pollution levy; and 20p excess power capacity levy, both on the Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA), with the combined effect being an increase in the ex-pump price of fuel by 5.7 per cent. Additionally, the government introduced a 1 per cent COVID-19...