Government to introduce Sports Levy – Kofi Adams

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  • Just me 1 year ago

    Sports levy my foot. only put that on sports tickets. Don't find another way of squeezing money from people whose little money is pressed for coins all the time.

  • King GH 1 year ago

    Such a useless sports minister. If you can't use influence of the ministry to secure proper sustainable deals and sponsorships to fund operations then what is your relevance as a minister? Kwaseampanyin, what are the funds a ...
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  • Ogidigidi 1 year ago

    Minister of Gender children and social protection is coming up with SEX LEVY

    Minister of Environment Science Technology and Innovation is also coming up with E-LEVY (Environment Levy)

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 year ago

    And I am coming up with UNEMPLOYED LEVY to tax people who are unemployed because they are not employed. That will be the best and the most interesting of all the taxes.

  • dogo 1 year ago

    Hey! Stop right there!!
    This will be unpopular tax. Ghanaians will vehemently oppose this tax. Don't even try that nonsense. I know you're testing the waters to gauge people's opinions. I hope you will take the time to read ...
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  • Joe 1 year ago

    The NDC have the majority in parliament, they can easily pass any useless law.

  • hmm 1 year ago

    please I don't like sports. very soon side chicks Levi will be introduced

  • hmm 1 year ago

    please I don't like sports. very soon side chicks Levi will be introduced

  • SPORTS LEVY MY FOOT! THIS IS NONSENSE AND WE SHALL RESIST !!! 1 year ago

    GHANA IS INDEED A FUNNEY COUNTRY! FOOOOLS AND BRAINLESS IDIOTS ARE IN POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP MISLEADING AND CAUSING HARDSHIP TO THE ALREADY IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE!

  • +JOJO 1 year ago

    Are the levies not too many? Ghana has become a tax & spend country.

  • Kwesi 1 year ago

    Please stop this joke

  • Obeng 1 year ago

    Gyae gyimie no, what levy? Are you crazy

  • Boune 1 year ago

    Nkwasias3m

  • Kwesi 1 year ago

    You people think Ghanaians are fools, you removed the tax on betting and now you want to bring a sports levy.

  • Nana 1 year ago

    Thank you Minister......aban papa is working. By the time they leave office, even the air we breathe will be taxed. Good for Ghana.....aban papa NDC all the way.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 year ago

    Hahahaha. That would be funny. Do you know that in Uncle Sam’s country we pay Death Tax? This is very true and funny. This is how it works. After years of your Parents working and paying taxes, when any of them dies and you ...
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  • Tikya Kofi 1 year ago

    Mo maame twɛ. Try any nonsense and you people will hear from us. We should pay to fund your corrupt agenda? nkwaseafoɔ, you will introduce wo maame twɛ kofi adama. Are we not burdened enough in this country? mmoa nantwie.

  • Kwabena Gyam 1 year ago

    Please study how sport is funded in many developed and even developing ones. Don't levy the already overtaxed citizens.

  • oduro 1 year ago

    things will not end well for this NDC government. too many missteps too soon. it will end very badly for them, I can foresee.

  • Capt Adabuga 1 year ago

    Eeeei NDC

  • Kofi Teacher 1 year ago

    such a fool too is a minister,nonsense,

  • Kwesi 1 year ago

    We can not have levy for everything. Citizens are paying income tax, VAT, etc. hence there should be money enough to finance our sports activities. Furthermore, had ORAL been effective we would have retrieved enough money to ...
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  • Joseph 1 year ago

    Isn't it sheer stupidity to abolish Betting Tax and introduce Sports Levy? Kwaseeato!

  • James 1 year ago

    Get serious mr sports minister

  • Kofi K. 1 year ago

    Thieves! then FIFA will say we do not have a say in sports concerning Ghana! Thieves!

  • Dr Yao Ngana 1 year ago

    Just imagine the nonsense of John Dramani Govt

  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI-CORRUPTION 1 year ago

    Look at these (NDC) nincompoops given the opportunity to govern our beloved country. They are clueless about everything but in opposition they claim they know everything.
    That’s why I kept on saying, toilet self is better ...
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  • Sam 1 year ago

    So what is happening in the country now, you guys said you were coming to save us, now look at what is happening, no problem 3years is just at the corner, we live to see

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  • GEORGE 1 year ago

    Are you serious? Sports levy in this modern Ghana ? Why not put that on sports tickets. Don't find another way of squeezing money from people whose little money is pressed for coins all the time.

  • Big Joe 1 year ago

    This crooks will kill us with Taxes,haba eiii everything taxe they will eventually put taxe on SEX

  • If you do good you do for... 1 year ago

    We would remove all taxes......
    4 years is not a century. What made you a minister can take it away from you. Power is transient. Ask NPP and Bawumia and they would explain it better to u.

  • Mickey 1 year ago

    Elections really have consequences

  • Chapter 4 1 year ago

    Hmmm let wait and see it implementation

  • JAK 1 year ago

    Loudable idea, but its source must come from 1% of bonuses given to players and athletes who represent Ghana and paid with Tax Payers hard earning.

  • JAK 1 year ago

    Loudable idea, but its source must come from some PERCENTAGE of bonuses given to players and athletes who represent Ghana and paid with Tax Payers hard earning.

  • Abdi 1 year ago

    Galamsay levy on its way, Ndc criminals

  • Rock 1 year ago

    Over my dead body. With all this corruption at the gfa and sports ministry? Just levy that on sports tickets and betting tax. No more new taxes on Ghanaians. Otherwise you will be in opposition in 2028. Period. Kw..siaaaa

  • Yaaaa 1 year ago

    This is long over-due. It should be set at 20%. We neef money to develop sports in the country. This is the best news!!!

  • Bole Bamboi Borla Boy 1 year ago

    Buulu

  • Agyeman 1 year ago

    FOOLISHNESS JUST TAKE IT OUT OF SAMMY GYAMFI'S SALARY AND ALLOWANCES. STUPID APPOINTEE

  • Van Koch 1 year ago

    Good move. Mahama Afa..3y3 Zu..3ya Za. The reset is working.

  • KofSam 1 year ago

    The downfall of the NPP was due to the countless levy they imposed on Ghanaians and NDC must learn from that . Kofi Adams should forget about imposing sports levy on Ghanaians. Ghana is rich and the government should look els ...
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  • Charles 1 year ago

    So why didn't you maintain the betting tax and spend the monies gotten from the tax on development of sports. What you are doing is -1 today, +1 tomorrow.

  • Kofi Sam 1 year ago

    Mr.Minister if you ask me i would say it is unnecessary. You will end up increasing taxes and eventually giving you problems. Seek for sponsership fro the private sector by giving them tax incentives. What about the sports be ...
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  • Anlo Patu 1 year ago

    We rather need a dedicated levy for hospital infrastructure and expansion not the nonesense of paying $10,000 per player for playing and not even winning. Misplaced priorities

  • So if i decided to sell the vehicle 1 year ago

    Why not education levy

  • Evoo 1 year ago

    Ghanaweb has succeeded in throwing the minister to the public for insults...He said sports FUND and not LEVY..aww

  • Ashley 1 year ago

    With 24 Hour Economy, why do we need a sports levy?

  • Ashley 1 year ago

    #Evoo.... did you listen to the whole clip? The minister clearly said you cannot set up a fund without a levy!!!

  • Odikro 1 year ago

    Myopic at its best. I thought the ministry gets allocated funds from the budget. And if that’s not enough then

    the minister and his ministry must seek sponsorship from corporate Ghana and elsewhere, corporations will pa ...
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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    DUMSOR LEVY , SPORTS LEVY, USELESS GOVERNMENT

  • Good 1 year ago

    Politicians must never be trusted. When you see them pushing a certain agenda, then there's a hidden motive.
    Just by seeking sponsorship for the local league and promising to build stadia, they want to use we the citizens to ...
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  • PITO 1 year ago

    A fund can definitely be established without a levy. What you mean is a fund cannot be established without financial channels.

  • Daakyehene 1 year ago

    What do we gain from sports as a nation, bring it and your party will match into opposition

  • GOV 1 1 year ago

    watch out for the following taxes because they are coming soon

    1.children protection levy
    2.DRIP Maintenance levy
    3.Prophecy levy
    4.Pad distribution levy
    5.3y3 zu levy.

  • Andy 1 year ago

    You guys shud stop that nonsense. Sports levy for what?
    U keep approving and spending monies any how and u want the citizens to pay levy?
    How do u justify paying a winning bonus to a ball boy/ equipment guys $4,000 bonus, m ...
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  • Londoner 1 year ago

    What do you people expect from such a useless political party called NDC? Have you all forgotten so soon that this thief of a sports minister during Mahama's first administration was renting out government V8 vehicles for his ...
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  • EKOW MARK 1 year ago

    Yenntua. Government appointees should forgo their per diem to fund sports and not the single mother from Musunkwa in the Central Region whose daughter has been sent to Bungurugu Yooyoo SHS as a day student.

  • Weather 1 year ago

    Sports lady for what

  • ASEMPA 1 year ago

    Kofi Adams is speaking trash, ur own NDC in Parliament will even kick again this senseless levy, is it going to support that corrupt GFA, the useless and non performing Black Stars and it's affiliates or the Football Clubs w ...
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  • Martin Kreisler 1 year ago

    The reaction to such a tax will be worse than that towards the infamous E-levy of the past NPP Government.
    The confidence with which this Minister is spewing forth such a 'misguided proposal' without attempting to court publ ...
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  • JD 1 year ago

    Given the opportunity, I will never pay such a levy. It is an opportunity to steal. What has the road levy done in improving our roads? The same will be said of such a stupid levy that these buffoons want to impose on us.

  • @Godisking 1 year ago

    Was that part of the manifesto you presented to Ghanaians? The real enemy of the people are the Politicians.

  • Nash 1 year ago

    Why are people crying? Very soon nkoko nketenkete levy will pop up. Ntweee. Don't stop. Bring more levies. John Mahama boldly told us if we vote for NDC, we shall wake up one day and be told Ghana has been sold. You thought h ...
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  • Rev Paul 1 year ago

    Please please the taxes in Ghana are too many. No more additional taxes.

  • Gh 1 year ago

    Are these ndc appointees learning at all? Levies sent npp into opposition and kofi Adams with those alo eyes are doing same

  • Gh 1 year ago

    Sports is supposed to generate money n we are paying for Sports.. what kind of stupidd politicians are these..

  • Tosh 1 year ago

    Please give us a break. These taxes never make any difference. What did the sanitation tax, ever do to making our cities and towns clean ? On the contrary, the sanitation situation has worsened, since that tax was imposed. Ev ...
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  • Ellioto 1 year ago

    Please just put a 50 Ghanaian peswas on sporting events tickets. Part to encourage the youth & part to support the aged or retired sportspersons who have represented our Country, Ghana. Levy nor tax will not help anyone but m ...
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  • Yellow man 1 year ago

    After Booting out npp another bunch of fools have taken over ,what have we done wrong God .

  • Bole 1 year ago

    stupid fool