Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has stated that government will not make any change in the 1.75% rate of the E-levy when the bill is reintroduced in Parliament for passage into law.
He said the absence of the levy on the order paper for Tuesday’s siting is part of the reasons to allow for further consultations on the controversial bill before it will be submitted to be passed or rejected.
“Is the Executive coming midway through the process to withdraw and amend [the 1.75% E-levy]? I’m not sure that’s what we have been informed [that] the Executive seeks to do. I have said over and over again that the Executive’s Bill, as was brought to and approved by Committee, is now before the House for consideration.”
“The intention is to engage and explain why the state needs to raise that money. It’s not the government that wants the money; the state needs those resources to be able to deliver on the very things that we are all asking the state to do,” he told JoyNews’ Kwesi Parker Wilson on Tuesday, January 25.
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