E-levy is the most crude and lazy way to widen tax net — West Africa Media Foundation boss

The incumbent government of Ghana led by Akufo Addo as part of its 2022 budget economic policies intends to impose a 1.75% levy on all electronic transactions.

The tax has since been met with mixed reactions, with Ghanaians kicking against it and stressing that it will only place an extra burden on their finances.

Even the minority in parliament has also announced that it will not support approval for the proposal.

Reacting to the brouhaha in Ghana as a result of the E-levy, the Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, has said the government’s approach to widening tax using the electronic transaction approach is most incompetent.

In a Twitter post, he said “E-levy is the most incompetent, lazy, brute and crude way of seeking to widen the tax net.”

Y’all know that the finance Minister in the person of Ken Ofori-Atta announced a new levy to be charged by the government in 2022 on all electronic transactions to widen the tax net and rope in the informal sector.

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