[ad_1] The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has kicked against the imposition of 15% Value Added Tax (VAT) on electricity for residential customers. They have demanded the government to withdraw the levy before Wednesday, January 31, 2024, as it would worsen the plight of the masses. The government has outlined the rationale for the imposition of … Read more
[ad_1] Martin Luther Kpebu is a private legal practitioner A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has burst the burble with regard to the handing over of the case involving the former Minister for Environment and Sanitation, Madam Cecilia, to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). He … Read more
[ad_1] Former President John Dramani Mahama has cautioned the government to spend judiciously, the US$600 million — the second tranche of the US$3 billion facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — as well as funds that would come from other development partners. According to the 2024 flag bearer for the opposition National Democratic Congress … Read more
[ad_1] John Dramani Mahama has backed the Trades Union Congress’ (TUC) call for the government to stop the implementation for the Value Added Tax (VAT) on electricity. Likewise the TUC, John Mahama says the additional tax will aggravate the already unbearable economic conditions unleashed on Ghanaians by the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) poor governance. In … Read more
[ad_1] Alban Kingsford Bagbin is Speaker of Parliament The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has described the ongoing prosecution of the Minority Leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, as a deliberate attempt by the government to persecute him. Mr. Bagbin says leadership is a matter of risk and repercussions of decisions … Read more
[ad_1] JK Rowling has said she would happily go to jail rather than address someone with pronouns different from what they were born as. The Harry Potter author said if a future Labour government makes it a hate crime to deliberately call someone by the wrong pronouns, she would rather do time for misgendering them than submit … Read more
[ad_1] Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has decried the rate at which corruption is ascending under the Akufo-Addo government. He says he is surprised the man who was a walking example of an abhorrent of corruption is now recording the highest cases of corruption in his government. According … Read more
[ad_1] Government is set to redesign the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy) with the aim of improving revenue mobilization and administrative efficiency. The tax handle has, as at May 2023, raked in more than GHC800,000,000.00, but government holds the view that this can be improved. This view is expressed in Government’s Medium Term Revenue Strategy plan … Read more
[ad_1] President Akufo-Addo (L) and Ken Ofori-Atta (R) Finance Minister and cousin to the President The New Patriotic Party government according to Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, is serving Ghanaians a “variation of “family, friends, and concubines’ government”, and controlling the press through “bribery and intimidation.” The cardio surgeon, reacting to an attack by thugs of the … Read more
[ad_1] Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng is a former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation A former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has condemned the attack by thugs of the New Patriotic Party at the studios of UTV, a member of the Despite Media Group over the weekend. He says the … Read more