Sekondi: Another Town Hall Meeting on E-Levy underway
By Marie Aziz Tunde A second Town Hall meeting on the controversial E-Levy is ongoing at the Sekondi Youth Center in the Western Region. The event comes off a week after the maiden public engagement on the policy in the Eastern Regional capital, Koforidua. The Sekondi event is featuring Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta; Information Minister, […]
E Levy is on
By: Sani Abdul-Rahman Electronic payments in Ghana now attract a 1.5% charge as the much-talked-about Electronic Transfer Levy took effect. The E-Levy is charged on mobile money payments, bank transfers, merchant payments, and inward remittances. Transactions not exceeding GHS 100 per day are exempted. The government targets to raise GH₵4.5 billion annually from the controversial […]
E-Levy: Include Social Media businesses
Considering the enormity of our development challenges, an E-Levy of 6.9 billion cedis annually is a necessary evil. The narrative should have been straightforward in the budget presented to parliament last year by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The controversy that has surrounded the E-Levy, which has culminated in the government’s town hall meetings, is compelling […]
Residents in Wa want E-Levy reduced from 1.75% to 0.5%
Participants at a Town Hall meeting on the E levy in Wa in the Upper West Region, have proposed to the government to further bring down the percentage of the E Levy from 1.75% 0.5%. They said when this is done, the government can then increase the levy to 1% in the following year and […]
