Akbar Yussif Rohullah Khomeini, the technical advisor at the Office of the Vice President, has said that the 2024 presidential candidate for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s promise to abolish the E-levy when voted to power, is not for crowd-pleasing.
This statement comes after Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia disclosed at his ‘Next Chapter’ address to the nation on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, that he will scrap the E-levy when voted as president.
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Speaking with Accra-based Asaase 99.5Fm on Thursday, February 8, Rohullah Khomeini opined that, the passage of the Electronic Levy, is a total discouragement for financial transactions, thus, needs to be scrapped off.
“It is not for crowd-pleasing, these are ideas well thought through by the flagbearer of the NPP. There is that recognition that we have to confront the cost of living issue which every Ghanaian is concerned about…“, he said.
He emphasized that the transition to the digital space as a country, the implementation of taxes, should not persuade individuals to lose interest in it.
“We must not have a tax system which will discourage people from wanting to participate in the digital space,” he added.
