Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has recommended to some aggrieved Ghanaians complaining about the controversial e-levy charges to change GHc 200.00 in two days to avoid being victims of the charges.
He said: “ if you have GH¢200, I am sure you can do it in two days and, therefore, there will be a zero-impact”, he recommended
The 1.5 per cent levy on some electronic transactions does not affect mobile money transfers under GHS100.
Mr. Ofori-Atta told journalists at a press conference on Thursday, 12 May 2022: “I think we pretty much have it under control, as much as we can”.
“We started on May 1, we were blessed with that being a period of holidays for three, four days, so, we saw the issues and began to tackle them,”.
“We are a country moving really forward”, adding: “We know our salaries are not that high so truly, most of those that people advocate as regressive taxes are not affected at all”.
He added: “We are truly excited about this new tax handle to look at issues of curing auction failures, increasing our revenue mobilization, getting technology and gradually moving into an economy in which, really, people just don’t use cash because it’s much easier to continue with technology,”.
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