Maverick politician Sammy Gyamfi has revealed that government has increase tertiary education school fees by 15% beginning next academic year 2022.
According to him, the current government has been engaged in taxation, excess taxation and now punitive taxation. Explaining that in the first term of the current government they introduced a 3% vat flat rate, 5% increase in vat, 5% national fiscal stabilisation levy extended beyond its expiry date of 2017, special import levy extended beyond expiry date of 2017 and then in 2021 1% COVID-19 health levy on NHIL, 1% COVID-19 levy on vat.
Speaking on good morning Ghana on metro TV, he stated that government has increase tertiary education school fees through taxation in the 2022 budget.
He said “fees and charges of government have also being increase by a minimum of 15%, so when you go for a passport at the passport office now you will pay 15% more, birth certificate, road worthy certificate DVLA or drivers license or the school fees of public university students will go up next year by 15%, school fees of nursing training students, colleges of education will all go up”.
He lamented the E-Levy charge of 1.75% saying “in addition to all these draconian, wicked measures they say the are introducing a Bawumia tax, they call it E-Levy, what it means is that, now on mobile money transfers any amount you transfer which is above hundred cedis government says i will take a charge a charge of 1.75%. Bear in mind that already we pay 1% transaction fee to the service providers, for the whole value chain that is what we pay. And in fact do you know that aside MTN for the other networks when you do On-network transactions like you send mobile money from Vodafone to Vodafone it is free or airteltigo to airteltigo it is free but this government says even though the service provider is not taking any money and even though when you send it from one network to another network they are taking you 1% Bawumia and Akufo Addo say we will take you almost double 1.75%.”.
He concluded by querying supporters of the E-Levy saying, in Ghana today “People earn GH 200.00, 300.00 does that make them rich ?.”
Source: My News Ghana
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