Member of the NDCs Communication Team, Bernard Anim Piesie, has said Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia must be asked how the government is going to raise revenue for the development of the country devoid of increasing taxes.
“Vice President Mahamadu Bawumia should be asked where we can get the revenue from because he claimed during the 2016 campaign time to know them all. So why waste time when the expert is with us and in government?” Anim Piesie asked.
He said President Akufo-Addo and his government should have studied the economy well before removing some “nuisance taxes” just to fulfill their campaign promises.
“President Nana Addo and his government shouldn’t have been in a haste to take off taxes they referred to as nuisance just to fulfill their campaign promises, and now finding a nice way to introduce those taxes back in a different brand,” he said.
NPP during its 2016 election campaign promised to reduce taxes when given the mandate to rule the country for the next four years.
Anim Piesie, contributing to a panel discussion on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme, affirmed he believes government has now realized the importance of those taxes and wants to implement them in a different form and identity.
According to him, the NPP should have picked lessons from the NDC that you cannot eat your cat and have it.
“I feel a reduction in the number of the current government appointees, especially ministerial positions will help raise lots of revenue to finance the state,” Anim Piesie stated.
He further explained that Ghana as a country needs the taxes from the citizens for developmental projects because over 40% of our budget drawn every year depends on donor support, an initiative that needs to be corrected.
Speculations and their attendant anger, especially on social media, about an imminent three and a half per cent increase in the VAT rate (17.5% to 21%) were rife late last week and the beginning of this week.
Finance Minister Ofori-Atta appeared to lend credence to the speculations when he dithered in answer to a question whether the VAT rate was going to go up.
“Until I go to Parliament, we wouldn’t know,” he responded, alluding to his anticipated appearance in Parliament on Thursday to present the mid-year budget review.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Ndc and their followers and especially Piesie should play back a single recording where Dr. Bawumia, Nana Addo or any NPP leader said taxes as taxes will be abolished. Ndc members eat lies, drink lies and breadth lies and sleep with lies. Twist the facts and present them to Ghanaian and they will believe you. This is the mentality of ndc including their Mahama. ndc has still not learnt their lesson that it their constant lies that sent them to opposition. They should go on and remain in the wilderness for God knows when.
THIS FULL WITH A CROCKED HEAD, A BOOT LICKER OF MAHAMA SEEMS NOT TO RESPECT THE VEEP. THIS PIESIE GUY CANNOT MAKE ANY POLITICAL ARGUMENT WITHOUT MENTIONING THE VEEP WITH A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION. FOR WHATEVER REASON, THE VEEP IS AND WILL BE BETTER THAN NDC PRESIDENTS THOSE THAT HAVE COME AND THOSE YET TO COME. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.
@Govt,NY, there is a reason why our cherished folk are galivanting around the world pleading to be enslaved. This unflinching partisan support is hurting all of us. We heard what Bawumia said.
let us leave Bawumia for God oooooooo to handle him .nobody to insult him oooooo.God will handle him for telling the truth.
ghanaians have forgotten that free of everything is bad. those who benefited from kwame nkrumah free education are worse of in using their mind to analyze an projecting for future.so am not suprised
Bawumia and his boss thought they were muddying the water, thinking things were going to be difficult for Mahama!! Thank goodness they won the election rather to their SHOCK!!! Now, their misdeeds and bad mouthing is starring them right in their faces!!!
Man you are right. Bawumia was on record saying Ghana has a lot of money in stock. And the president in his campaign asserted that Ghana is not poor. I pity Bawumia and his future. His future is tracking on his false alterances claiming knowing all the problems and solutions of Ghana's economy. Fix the cedi.
The vice president never said taxes would be abrogated when they come to power I never heard that, what I reckon was said is that the NDC have taxed everything including condom and that's a lazy approach of thinking outside the box. well I agree with him at least now every child is schooling free in public SHS, the health insurance card is working pretty ok.