{"id":11289,"date":"2021-11-22T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/lets-pay-taxes-for-development-hassan-ayariga"},"modified":"2021-11-22T22:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T22:06:30","slug":"lets-pay-taxes-for-development-hassan-ayariga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/lets-pay-taxes-for-development-hassan-ayariga","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s pay taxes for development &#8211; Hassan Ayariga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Accra, Nov 22- Dr. Hassan Ayariga, Founder of the All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), has encouraged the citizenry to pay taxes for the rapid socioeconomic development of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taxation is what is going to help us develop our country and not borrowing, no country has ever developed on borrowing, and I believe Ghanaians want to pay taxes, but they do not want to pay taxes that don&#8217;t contribute to development,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a Press Conference in Accra on Monday, dubbed, \u201cPost Budget Analysis,\u201d Dr. Ayariga, the 2020 Presidential Candidate for the APC, applauded the Government for suspending the collection of road tolls from next year as captured in the 2022 Budget Statement.<\/p>\n<p>He also commended the Government for its YouStart Initiative, aimed at empowering young people to start, and grow small businesses. 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Accra, Nov 22- Dr. Hassan Ayariga, Founder of the All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), has encouraged the citizenry to pay taxes for the rapid socioeconomic development of the country. &#8220;Taxation is what is going to help us develop our country and not borrowing, no country has ever developed on borrowing, and I believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[5092,5096,429,5754,5753],"class_list":["post-11289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana","tag-hassan-ayariga","tag-taxes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Let\u2019s pay taxes for development - Hassan Ayariga - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Accra, Nov 22- Dr. Hassan Ayariga, Founder of the All People&#039;s Congress (APC), has encouraged the citizenry to pay taxes ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/lets-pay-taxes-for-development-hassan-ayariga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Let\u2019s pay taxes for development - Hassan Ayariga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Accra, Nov 22- Dr. Hassan Ayariga, Founder of the All People&#039;s Congress (APC), has encouraged the citizenry to pay taxes ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/lets-pay-taxes-for-development-hassan-ayariga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-22T21:41:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-22T22:06:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2021\/11\/img-619c144c808a8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/lets-pay-taxes-for-development-hassan-ayariga#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/lets-pay-taxes-for-development-hassan-ayariga\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Let\u2019s pay taxes for development &#8211; 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