Change Your Mobile Network If You Want To Reduce The Impact Of E-Levy – New Juaben MP To Ghanaians

If the e-levy is passed, Michael Okyere Baafi, Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, has advised Ghanaians to change their mobile networks to minimise the impact of the e-levy.

“You are the one who is responsible for paying the levy.”

For example, if you send Ghc200 to your child at OPASS, you will not be charged tax on the first Ghc100.

As a result, the first hundred cedis are free. You’ll pay the e-levy on the remaining Ghc100. The person who sends is also the person who will pay the fee. Your receiving child will not have to pay anything. Ghana has a large number of telecommunications firms. MTN, Vodafone, and Airtel Tigo are all available. MTN charges, but Vodafone does not, therefore if you think MTN is charging too much, switch to Vodafone. Simple”.

On Monday, February 14,2022, the congressman mentioned this during a townhall meeting with market women and taxi drivers in Koforidua about the e-levy. The purpose of the engagement was to explain the nexus of the e-levy law and its benefits to faster growth in greater depth.

Should Ghana turn to the Bretton Woods Institution for assistance, the MP has previously warned that the IMF could push the government to abolish the Free Senior High School Policy as part of the conditionalities.

“If we don’t pay the E-levy and go to the World Bank or the IMF for loans, they would urge Akufo-Addo to remove the free SHS, which will affect your children, so you must all accept the E-levy and pay it so it helps us all,” Okyere Baafi told constituents at a town hall gathering.

His remarks came after Roads and Highways Minister Kwasi Amoako-Atta guaranteed road contractors in the country that if the controversial e-levy is enacted, all existing bills will be paid in full.

“The road sector will earn its due share of the E-levy once it is deployed. The government will pay all contractors who owe the government money. When the E-Levy is implemented, a number of bad roads will be repaired because all contractors we owe will be paid.

Source: GhanaFeed.com