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E-levy: When You go to Europe You Run And Pay Taxes But In Ghana You Want to Change – Ofori-Atta
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has reiterated the need for citizens to honour tax obligations, required by the State.
Responding to questions at a town hall meeting in Sekondi, he highlighted some of the benefits of taxes, and charged citizens to refrain from dodging the payment of taxes.
He therefore stressed that, the E-levy is one of such taxes designed to help mobilise revenue for development, hence citizens should rally behind its implementation.
“If you look in our tax books, there’s a dispensation known as ‘gift tax’; which implies that when somebody gives you a gift, just like in Europe where you cannot hide, you pax a tax on the gift. As to what you do with the gift is nobody’s concern. And that’s why I reiterated the fact that, blissful projects are enabled by money. When we go to Europe, we run and pay our taxes in peace, yet when we come to our own home country, then we want to change our behavior. Of a truth, we must be accountable and transparent. We don’t have to change”, Ken Ofori-Atta advised.
