Dr. Gideon Boakye, Member of Parliament for Tano North constituency, has expressed concerns about President Mahama’s promise to stop the Betting Tax and E-Levy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He fears that this move might lead to increased taxes elsewhere. Dr. Boakye also questioned the Finance Minister’s proposal to abolish these taxes in the first budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Boakye emphasized that if the taxes are to be stopped, it should be done outright, rather than introducing new taxes or increasing existing ones. He suggested that alternative revenue sources, such as emissions taxes, could be explored to support the debt revenue service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Concerns Raised Over Proposed Repeal of Betting Tax and E-Levy<\/p>\n
Dr. Gideon Boakye, Member of Parliament for Tano North constituency, has expressed concerns about President Mahama’s promise to stop the Betting Tax and E-Levy. <\/p>\n
He fears that this move might lead to increased taxes elsewhere. Dr. Boakye also questioned the Finance Minister’s proposal to abolish these taxes in the first budget.<\/p>\n
Dr. Boakye emphasized that if the taxes are to be stopped, it should be done outright, rather than introducing new taxes or increasing existing ones. He suggested that alternative revenue sources, such as emissions taxes, could be explored to support the debt revenue service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}