Ghanaians believe they are not taxed fairly – Isaac Adongo

Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central and Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac Adongo, has expressed interest implicit the wide nationalist mistrust successful Ghana’s taxation system, stating that galore citizens consciousness the strategy is unfair and does not service their interests.

Speaking connected GHOne TV pursuing caller initiatives announced by President John Dramani Mahama, Adongo emphasised that nationalist cognition plays a important relation successful the effectiveness of taxation collection.

According to him, Ghanaians are much apt to defy taxation erstwhile they judge the process is inequitable oregon that nationalist funds are being mismanaged.

“Confidence and spot are precise cardinal successful the absorption of an economy. One of the challenges Ghanaians look erstwhile it comes to paying taxes is that they don’t judge they are being taxed fairly, nor bash they spot that their wealth volition beryllium spent wisely,” helium stated.

Adongo praised the displacement successful fiscal priorities seen successful the existent budget, noting that, for the archetypal clip successful galore years, the absorption appears to beryllium connected taxing the affluent to enactment the vulnerable.

“There has been a paradigm displacement where, successful this budget, the Minister for Finance, unneurotic with the Cabinet of Ghana, made a wide determination to instrumentality much from the affluent to money programs that payment the mediocre and the implications are already visible,” helium explained.

He besides referenced the motorboat of 2 large societal programs spearheaded by the President; MahamaCares, a healthcare spot money aimed astatine supporting Ghanaians battling chronic illnesses, and the National Apprenticeship Programme, which targets implicit 10,000 unemployed youth.

“Recently, His Excellency launched a programme to enactment implicit 10,000 unemployed Ghanaian younker done the National Apprenticeship Programme. He’s reasoning astir healthcare, and besides astir giving backmost to the radical of Ghana who wage taxes but find themselves successful hard wellness situations. That’s MahamaCares,” helium pointed out.

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