By Edzorna Francis Mensah
The opposition NDC in Parliament has described the just presented 2024 mid-year fiscal policy review as uninspiring, bereft of new ideas, no hope and with no policy to offer a road map for addressing the numerous problems facing the people of Ghana.
The Minority Leader, Cassiel Ato Forson (Ph.D), at a news conference in Parliament House said, this mid-year review leaves many people disappointed and uninspired- “it gives no hope to hope to the ordinary Ghanaian that anything will be done to change the unbearable hardships that confront the people of Ghana”.
The Minority further submitted to the media the list of taxes Ghanaians are currently paying which includes: E-Levy, COVID Levy, VAT rate of 22%, betting tax, Sanitation Levy, An emission Levy among others.
Below is the full statement:
