The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has in a meeting over the weekend instructed Minority MPs to reject the much-talked about E-Levy when it is resubmitted in Parliament.
The opposition NDC has “unanimously agreed to do everything to prevent the E-Levy from being passed” in a bid to “undermine the government’s revenue mobilisation efforts.”
A reliable source present at the Ada meeting, which had in attendance the 2020 flagbearer John Mahama and other party leaders said the strategy is to “force the government of Nana Akufo-Addo to go to the IMF” for assistance.
“Any MP who fails to comply with the directive will be punished severely by the party’s leadership,” the insider told Asaase News.
The E-Levy would apply to mobile money payments, bank transfers, merchant payments, and inward remittances. It is aimed at widening the tax net as well as to rope in the informal sector.
GhanaFeed.com
