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Parliament approves levies to stabilize economy

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  • KOO 10 years ago

    All taxes have been increased and new ones have been introduced coupled with massive borrowing from this administration yet nothing is improving.They do not understand that the best way is to widen the tax net.Asking those wh ...
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  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    It is appreciated efforts by Government and Parliament to shore up the budget. The target area for taxes to do this are all agric based, looking at the list. In one vain areas including cutlasses are included but fertilizer i ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    These selfish and greedy politicians want to strangle Ghanaians economically while they increase their salaries astronomically.What a cheat!

  • kwam 10 years ago

    The gov't must look elsewhere for this taxes, e.g alcoholic beverages, musical instrument, second hand clothing, imported clothing, etc.

  • Hazor 10 years ago

    Ghanaians wake up from your slugger and took it to the street to demonstrate against this levies to stabilize economy approved by parliament to redraw the bill like what brave Ghanaians did against VAT in Kumi Preko demonstra ...
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  • Hazor 10 years ago

    Did ghana has economy at all?what economy are they taking about.Are taking about prostitution economy or armed robbery economy.Is it manufacturing economy or jobless economy.Is it Importing and buying and selling economy or s ...
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  • joe USA 10 years ago

    Sorry state of the country.the parliament and the government does not know what they are doing and they can seize everything that comes in the country they can do anything about the Ghanian economy because they do not know wh ...
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  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    you monkeys are on the right path. you have chocked the economy by crippling local production. now tax every imported raw materials, tax semi processed materials and breakdown every sector of the economy. once every thing is ...
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