The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Simon Kweku Tetteh, has said every government would succeed if the citizenry performed their duties by paying their required taxes and levies which the government uses for development.
He said in the situation where the people refused to pay their legitimate taxes and levies but rather read political meaning into those obligations draws the country back and that affected development programmes seriously.
“There is no country that will develop without collection of taxes and levies from the citizens even if that country is very rich in so many natural resources. So there is therefore the need for us as citizens of Lower Manya Krobo to honour our tax obligations for the development of the municipality and the country at large and no political meaning should be read into it as it is being done now,” the MCE said.
Mr Tetteh was answering questions at a forum organised by Youth and Women Empowerment (YOWE) and sponsored by STAR Ghana Foundation, the phase II of Gender and Social Inclusive (GESI), an interface between vulnerable groups at Odumase-Krobo.
The programme, which was entitled: “Promoting inclusive and participatory governance II,” was attended by persons with disability (PWDs), queenmothers association, traditional authorities, market women, organised groups, among others.
Source: Graphic.com
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Ghana is too small to be having so many retardedd. The more we drill oil the more the dollar rise. And it's because we don't take anything for the oil. Don't tell me $500 million is enough. Even at 10 percent we should be making more than $20 billion dollars. Gyimiiii leadership! Send your paperless to the oil fields.
We have too many of such people in this country, can't we exterminate them? Or find some way to reduce their numbers.
Any Ghanaian who says we need to pay tax in this country doesn't know how much is taken out of this country or he's a fooooollllllll.
In the abundance of natural resources the fullllishh leader is chasing the poor Ghanaian for taxes! Mbellefo! With the quantum of resources we have, Ghanaians don't need to pay any tax at all, we need to be paid by government. To whom much is given much is expected.