Ken Ofori Atta, the Minister for Finance has expressed utter shock that the NDC would be the party fighting against the E-levy when a similar levy on digital transactions was proposed on page 99 of the ‘People’s Manifesto’.
“… and then I go and look in their manifesto on page 99 and they have something they call uniform fees which would look at taxing all electronic transfers in their own manifesto. So what are they doing?” he asked.
The Minister, Ken Ofori Atta went on to suggest that the behaviour of the NDC implies that “they do not want us to get jobs or they want us to go to the IMF”.
“Are we here as a proud nation, courageous, strong to take this burden? What does the IMF do? The last time they did, it was a billion dollars in a programme of 300 million dollars per year. E-levy, as small as you might think it, will be ghc 7 billion starting this year, if we had started early. So we could pay your DACF but they [the NDC] are sitting on it”.
“So really, that is the picture I want you to get and determine for yourself that look, my friend MP, you go and vote for the E-levy,” he added.
Meanwhile taking on the NDC MPs in the region, the Finance Minister suggested that their stance against the E-levy is a stance against youth employment.
The Minister was speaking at the government’s Town Hall Meeting on the E-levy at Wa, the Upper West Regional Capital.
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