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March 3, 2025
As President John Dramani Mahama’s government prepares to present its first budget statement to Parliament, the Minority has served notice that they will reject any attempt to smuggle in new taxes or increase existing taxes.
“We the Mighty Minority will join the people of Ghana to resist any attempt to smuggle in new taxes or increase existing taxes. We owe it a duty to hold the government accountable for their promises to the people of Ghana”, the said when they presented the ‘true State of the Nation Address’ at a press conference in parliament on Monday.
The Minority contends that the ongoing National Economic Dialogue, is intended to whitewash the unfounded and baseless claims of the mismanagement of our economy under the erstwhile NPP administration; and further asserted that the government was scaring the people of Ghana by putting out unaudited outstanding claims on government.
“We believe these unholy moves by the NDC are intended to buy time to cover for its incompetence in managing the economy and to establish the basis for increasing taxes and introducing new taxes in the 2025 Budget Statement, even as they are promising to scrap E-Levy, COVID-Levy and others.
Ladies and gentlemen, does it make sense to scrap E-levy and betting tax, and replace them with new taxes on the mining, telecommunication, the financial sector and real estate industries, which will all be passed on to customers?
The people of Ghana should wait for the deception of the NDC government when they present the 2025 budget – taxes galore!”
“This is how they intend to tax Ghanaians to collect their target of GHS200billion in tax revenues this year. This government accused us of overtaxing the people of Ghana because by the end of 2024, the NPP administration collected GHS152.9 billion which is 17% tax to GDP ratio taking it from President Mahama’s 13% in 2016. How do you then turn around to expect to collect GHS200 billion in a broken economy?” They queried.
Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.com