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“Reduce The Salary Of The President And Other Gov’t Appointees Before We Can Talk About E-levy”-John Dumelo Fumes Over E-levy Approval

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Ghanaian actor cum politician, John Dumelo has chastised the New Patriotic Celebration authorities over the approval of the e-levy taxation, saying Ghanaians don’t want digital taxation in the intervening time.

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In accordance with him, the one means for the federal government to generate the identical earnings they want to attain by way of the e-levy is by reducing down pointless expenditure and sealing corruption loopholes inside the jurisdiction.

He averred that the salaries of the President, Ministers, and different authorities appointees have to be diminished earlier than the federal government can maintain discussions pertaining to taxing Ghanaians to pay the e-levy.

In a tweet, John Dumelo, an aspiring parliamentary candidate advised that the Akufo Addo-led authorities must make some sacrifices with reference to how nationwide funds are being spent on authorities appointees together with the president earlier than the e-levy could be initiated.

Majority of Ghanaians don’t need the E-levy at this level. Reduce down your expenditure, seal corruption loopholes, cut back salaries of the President,ministers and authorities appointees and so on. Let’s see some sacrifice first, then possibly, simply possibly we will discuss in regards to the e-levy, he wrote.

His feedback come after Hon Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the incumbent Member of Parliament for Nsawam-Adoagyiri constituency appealed to Ghanaians to help the federal government on its e-levy as a result of the initiative goals at offering funding to sort out youth employment and construct social and digital infrastructure.

The e-levy seeks to supply funding to sort out youth employment and construct social and digital infrastructure. It’s a proportional tax which additionally accounts for low earnings earners. Let’s help authorities to implement this tax to fund the very issues we’d like as a folks, he stated on Twitter.

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