Electronic Transaction  Levy Will Facilitate  Development in the Country  - Solomon Owusu Tells Ghanaians

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Jaman North District in the Bono Region, Mr. Solomon Owusu, has entreated Ghanaians to support the developmental agenda of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) of ensuring that the passage of the Electronic Transaction Levy (commonly known as Electronic Levy or E-levy) is well implemented to alleviate the hardship of Ghanaians.

The DCE stressed that the politicization of the electronic transaction levy has created a lot of tension inciting others to see it as a means for the ruling government to extort monies from the citizens but he called on Ghanaians to disregard such misinformation.

According to the NPP firebrand, the E-Levy which has passed by Parliament under a certificate of urgency a couple of weeks ago,

is key to facilitating the country's developmental agenda.

"This is because loans from other countries are not an answer to the economic woes of the country but insisting on the persistent payment of levies internally will alleviate the hardships and ensure development.

"A lot of people within the country avoid the payment of taxes as the result of their profession making it difficult for the country to realize the expected revenue that has to be generated internally, therefore the E-Levy will capture all workers within the country to pay tax hence widening the tax net of the country," the DCE noted.

Speaking On the 8-year conventional cycle for the selection of President and a political party to lead the country, Mr. Owusu described it as a bad practice that forestalls development.

He stressed that people must embrace the decision of the NPP by giving the party the mandate to serve in the subsequent electioneering terms to achieve its developmental objectives.

He opined that the benefits of the progressive agenda of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia will be fully realized in the coming years hence the need for Ghanaians to maintain the party to continue its developmental projects for the betterment of the country. 

The introduction of E-levy by the Government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2022 budget as a novelty of raising tax revenues to support the government agenda for the development of the country with two strategic objectives; scaling up employment generation for our teeming youth and the construction of road infrastructure network has occasioned varying views and interpretations.