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Pratt Asks: When will gov't stop taxing Ghanaians?

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  • Kwame Angel 10 years ago

    The NDC and the Mahamas are never going to get satisfied, so don't hope for a tax relief. The man is a gargantuan thief.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

    NDC IS GHANA'S NEMESIS!! !!
    NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENT ...
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  • Efo Kossi Korve 10 years ago

    I am happy the Dep Finance Minister has thrown enough light on the present hullabaloo. What I suggest to government is for it to take on Barclays for this very irresponsible text messages it sent to its clients. I received on ...
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  • ONE DAY, ONE DAY 10 years ago

    who ever thought j.j and the ndc will be booted out in 2000? no condition is permanent. IN GOD WE GHANAIANS TRUST.......Amen.

  • Gye Nyame 10 years ago

    I believe what the government is trying to do is tax interest income on deposits which is done in the US. Sort of a capital gains tax. What they need to explain to the people is that they don't lose any part of the principal ...
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  • SOJI 10 years ago

    You miserable fool. I just received a txt message from Ecobank Ghana indicating when they should start the useless deduction from my accounts.

  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana 10 years ago

    Kwasi Pratt why are you crying now? Mahama is going to tax you even if you have sex with your own wife so get ready and more is coming. A word to the wise is enough.

  • Pito Brewer 10 years ago

    What percentage of Ghanaians pay income tax?

  • Kwasi Asante , Providence, R.I. 10 years ago

    Efo,
    Obviously you are one of the foolish die hards of the ruling administration. Even when you feel hardship this government has implemented on Ghanaians you are in denial and ppraise defensively and pointinh fingers on ot ...
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  • Kwaansa 10 years ago

    Stop this your copy and past nonsense. You are pasting it every where and nobody is reading it. be creative

  • IDDRISU 10 years ago

    EVERYBODY LOSES AND THE MAHAMAS GAIN

  • OTCHERE DARKO 10 years ago

    Government will stop taxing [excessively] when NDC politicians in Ghana end their "chop-chop" culture which needs constant 'financing'.

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Ghana has always had to top up its budget from DONOR FUNDS. It means we have NEVER BALNCED our budgets. This is not NDc or NPP but what Africans have been doing. NPP closed Nkrumahs factories that woud have been closing the g ...
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  • Kwaku Obeng 10 years ago

    NDC had 20 years to make them profitable. What were you smoking?

  • Nii Lante Okunka 10 years ago

    Yea Pratt,Gov't would stop taxing Ghanaians after they stop "bribing you incompetent journalists to look elsewhere rather than being the watchdogs for the people.OK!!

  • MMOBROWAH 10 years ago

    I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE. I'LL BE AMONG THE FIRST TO CLOSE DOWN MY CURRENT ACCOUNT IF IT IS TO BE SUBJECTED TO TAX. I PAY MY TAXES INCLUDING SURCHARGES FOR NHIL ON GOODS PURCHASED ETC ETC., BUT I WON'T HAVE THE MEAGRE A ...
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  • JOJO 10 years ago

    Pratt you have lost all respect by asking such n.p.p question, period. You know Kufour ruled and ruined us for some 8 years ago. As a result, Mahama government is now severely broke and therefore needs huge revenue to fix the ...
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  • Kom 10 years ago

    What! cant believe a human being wrote this. NDC has been in power for over 5 years now and you are still talking about NPP. Where are you from? I meant which planet I you from? Have you heard of SADA, SUBA, GYEEDA etc?

  • SOJI 10 years ago

    JOJO IS A SENILE APE IN A DEJECTED FOREST IN MADAGASCAR. SO DON'T WORRY YOURSELF OVER SUCH AN IDIOT.

  • Sea-Lighter 10 years ago

    MY DEAR NPP MEMBERS LETS KILL NDC BEFORE IT KIL US

  • Kwaansa 10 years ago

    Sorry NPP has an inbuilt self- destruction tendency. Stupid comments to turn off the very people they need to bring on board. Stupid pride based on false tribal calculations that they will win and therefore if they don't they ...
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  • Kwaku Obeng 10 years ago

    A typical NDC man will always talk about tribe so that he can fell good about himself or herself. If political competition is tribalism, why then did NDC campaign daily from 2002 till 2008? Was it because K4 was Asanti? Was i ...
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  • Kwaku Obeng 10 years ago

    the word is intolerant ; not intolerance.

  • ADJEI 10 years ago

    I will advice the gov't to start taxing the churches since it is now the fastest growing business in Ghana. I don't understand why churches don't pay taxes. Their pretense is beyond my thinking. If the gov't wants to widen th ...
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  • Saman Pa 10 years ago

    The bank of Ghana and MFEP should come out clear with a list which bank services that this tax will affect.

  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    All the the government knows to find the ways and means to tax the citizens and rob them of any benefit through corruption. Are the people of Northern Ghana getting the supposed benefits fron SADA funds. Why can't the govern ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    When voters elect truants to rule, senseless taxation is what they get. Who in the current administration has any credibility? None because they are nothing more than "tax and spend socialist" rats.

    When JJ formed NDC, t ...
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  • OKOFO 10 years ago

    I'm a great fan of Kwasi Prat but for this he has demonstrated total ignorance of the subject. After introducing a tax which is suppose to be implemented by the banks its not the government but the bank to explain to their cl ...
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  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    I think this is one step too much by the government. The troubles associated with this tax are not worth the revenue to be gained from it. The explanation by the Deputy Minister does not make sense to me. If it takes a minist ...
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  • E DE BEE K3K3 10 years ago

    Tax to loot that is the real meaning of e de bee k3k3. Akwasi Pratt was and is still supporting e de bee k3k3, so what is his problem? Let the thievery of the better Ghana agenda progress in full force, because you wanted it, ...
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  • BoG 10 years ago

    It's important you go and withdraw your money now!!!.

  • SUCK UR MOTHER 10 years ago

    NO MORE SAVING IN BANK.. NDC FOOLS

  • kweku usa 10 years ago

    Government would stop when you are dead you are so stupid

  • MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 10 years ago

    TWEAAAAAAAAA MAHAMA WILL NEVER STOP UNTILL HE AND HIS FAMILY FINISHED GHANIANS,OR ALL GHANIANS DIE BE4

  • Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

    He will be die by next yr

  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    Taxes are a way of life for most people in most developed nations; that is why those nations are developed and we and others live in miserable communities. In Ghana we allowed the fallacies of the Danquah-Busia ideologues who ...
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  • Kwaku Obeng 10 years ago

    Danquah-Busia thinking is based private initiative and hard work. Please do not lie as a typical NDC person does. Also do not compare apples with cola nuts. Have you been to a developed nation before? Do their presidents incr ...
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  • Mosby 10 years ago

    Where is CJA? Why are they not demonstrating Mr Kwesi Pratt?

  • KOO BAAH 10 years ago

    NKONKONSAKWASIPRATT/GYAE WO NKONKONSA POLITICSNO.YOU AND AWUKU DID NOT UNDERSTAND ATTO FORSON.PRATT DONT FOLlow awuku who respects nobody.KOOBAAH.

  • EVIL BASTARDS 10 years ago

    WHAT AT ALL IS WRONG WITH THIS NDC GOVERNMENT? DO THEY WANT TO KILL THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY????
    1.THEY SAY THEY ARE ALL FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, YET THEY RENDER NOUSES UN-AFFORDABLE BY IMPOSING A 17.5% VAT ON BUYERS OF NEW ...
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  • MAHAMA - DOING MY JOB 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS DESERVE TO SUFFER . AFRC , PNDC AND NDC . ONE MAN SHOW MORE THAN 24 YEARS .

  • KOGYAM 10 years ago

    YOU HAVE TRIED IN VAIL ALL THESE YEARS TO SUPPORT NDC WHEN DEEP IN YOUR HEART YOU KNOW THEY CANT PERFORM. WHY CRY NOW LEAVE THEM TO SEND US TO THE REAL NDC PROMISED LAND. ENTWA WO TI .

  • karl 10 years ago

    what stops the minister of information and finance to come on air and have proper discussion of the implemented tax and also to educate the public on the tax, than hiding away and making comment which does not clarify the iss ...
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  • Tokyo 10 years ago

    When fools like you. Stop supporting this devilish NDC !!!!!

  • Prince jamal ali 10 years ago

    These idea is not good please it wld influence more corroption wedden financial inst by phsyphoing funs from individuals a/cs in the name tax deduction by Gorvment.

  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    NDC HAS SUCCEEDED IN BRAIN WASHING GHANAIANS TO BASE VOTING ON TRIBALISM INSTEAD OF PERFORMANCE SO NDC CONTINUES TO THROW OUR SCARCE RESOURCES AWAY THRO FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS, GYEEDA, SUBAH,SADA, WOYOME, BARTON ODRO, BETTY MOU ...
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  • Jeremy 10 years ago

    Without the tax where lies the responsibility of the people ? Where does the government get the money for public infrastuctures etc .
    Do not mislead the pople .You want cheap popularity

  • New Sheriff in Town 10 years ago

    Mahama and his Terkpe gang must be dragged to the SC if they do not go through parliament before effecting this meaningless tax on banking. From the deputy minister's explanation one can easily infer they themselves do not kn ...
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  • AKONFEM MAHAMA 10 years ago

    MAHAMA PLEASE TAX THESE FOOLS AND COWARDS TO DEATH. NEXT TIME THEY WILL LEARN SENSE.

  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Don't you know Ghana is broke?