News:
July 24, 2019
Member of Parliament for Ho Central Benjamin Kpodo has said President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government should cut down on government’s expenditure if it really want to experience growth in Ghana’s economy.
According to the Ho Central legislator, government machinery is too huge with one hundred and ten Ministers, every Minister would take salaries.
He further added that these Ministers have four wheel drives, salon cars, “looking at the Presidential staffers they are almost one thousand, this are areas government can cut down” he said.
How can we go ahead with working on a national ID for one point two billion dollars, that is about five billion Ghana cedis for Ghana card, he said in an interview as the debate on the Mid -Year review had started on the floor of the House.
He however expressed joy that government brought to Parliament for approval, a fiscal device at point of sales, “that is something that can bring in revenue and you saw that it had a bye partisan approval”.
Again with this, SMEs would not be able to under declare their turn over’s out of this, which taxes would be levied and collected; these are measures which would attract bi-partisan support whether it is NPP or NDC.
“We do not need to impose new taxes because it would bring hardship to Ghanaians, rather the focus should be on efficiently colleting the old taxes widening the net”, he lamented.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com