News:
May 16, 2018
The Minority in Parliament is calling on the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta to priorities his time and make it a habit to be on the floor of the House to do business in the chamber.
Finance Minister and his Deputies were not on the floor of the House on Tuesday to lay papers on avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital gains.
These agreements are between the Republic of Ghana and Mauritius, Kingdom of Morocco, Czech and Singapore.
Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr. Antony Akoto Osei was allowed by the Speaker to lay the papers on behalf of the Finance Minister, which was referred to the Finance committee.
According to the Minority Chief Whip, Mubarak Muntaka Mohamed, it was wrong to start the second meeting of the second session of the seventh Parliament for the fourth Republic without the Finance Minister being present on the floor.
“We witness a similar occurrence in the first meeting, what is involve here is double taxation this is a very important tax Minister and his Deputies are not here, hope the Majority Leader will send out sentiment to the Minister”.
“He should priorities his time”, and pointed out that the Minister of State in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation has been doing this too many times on behalf of the Finance Minister.
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, in response said the Minister and his Deputies were attending to an important business hence the absence.