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Editorial News of Tuesday, 12 January 1999

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The Daily Graphic

"Fate of 71 students in a fix"
"Traders hike prices" is a front-page headline in the Times. The story says some traders and shop owners in Accra are taking advantage of the re-introduction of the Valued Added Tax (VAT) to increase prices of their goods.Others have also pasted photocopies of the VAT certificates in their shop instead of the original one while others have hidden their contrary to the VAT law.According to the paper, this came to light when the officials of the VAT Service went round to assess how traders were responding to the implementation of the tax.