Scrap VAT On Domestic Consumption Of Electricity Without Any Further Delay
The group calling itself AriseGhana which made this call in a press statement copied to Soireenews.com noted that it has learnt with utter disgust, the decision by the callous Akufo Addo/Bawumia Government, acting through the Minister For Finance to impose VAT on the domestic consumption of electricity, effective January 2024.
Freeman Koryekpor 
A CALL has been made on the government of the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to scrap VAT on domestic consumption of electricity without any future delay.
The group calling itself AriseGhana which made this call in a press statement copied to Soireenews.com noted that it has learnt with utter disgust, the decision by the callous Akufo Addo/Bawumia Government, acting through the Minister For Finance to impose VAT on the domestic consumption of electricity, effective January 2024.
In the statement signed by Co-Convener of the AriseGhana, Mr Bernard Mornah, the group noted that it is of the considered view, that government’s imposition of VAT on the domestic consumption of electricity, at a time Ghanaians are faced with unprecedented economic hardships is cruel and unacceptable.
In the wake of the mismanagement of the country’s economy by the Bawumia-led
Economic Management Team, resulting in alarmingly high interest rate, high inflation rate, high unemployment rate, debt default, among others, the statement said the least the government can do is to fashion out policies to mitigate and ameliorate the plight of the masses and not to pile more taxes on them.
"It is a sad irony that President Akufo-Addo, who was the leader of the bloody Kume Preko Demonstration that vehemently opposed the introduction of VAT, has now turned around to increase and expand the incidence rate of VAT just to finance the creature comfort of his corrupt and wasteful government.
'AriseGhana hereby demands, that government takes immediate steps to withdraw the Minister of Finance’s directive to ECG and NEDCO to commence charging VAT on domestic consumption of electricity, failing which, we shall be compelled to engage in a series of public manifestations in collaboration with other progressives to compel the government to do the needful," the statement noted.
AriseGhana applauded the Trades Union Congress for speaking truth to power and for standing in defence of the workers and people of Ghana. Together we stand. Enough is enough!
