{"id":4528,"date":"2019-10-10T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2019-10-10T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:03:08","slug":"dr-assibey-yeboah-accuses-telcos-of-making-govt-unpopular-with-immediate-talk-tax-deductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/dr-assibey-yeboah-accuses-telcos-of-making-govt-unpopular-with-immediate-talk-tax-deductions","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Assibey Yeboah accuses telcos of making gov\u2019t unpopular with immediate \u2018talk tax\u2019 deductions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chairman of Parliament\u2019s Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chairman of Parliament\u2019s Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah has accused telecommunication companies in the country of\u00a0 deliberately making government unpopular.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Assibey Yeboah condemned the telcos over their mode of implementation of the 9% increment in the Communication Service Tax (CST).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many have complained about the immediate tax deduction\u00a0after consumers recharge, followed by a text message.<\/p>\n

For instance, a recharge of GHc 10 worth of talk time gives consumers GHc9.2 as a result of the tax.<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0Citi News\u00a0after an Article IV consultation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday, Dr. Assibey Yeboah questioned the motive of the Telcos for implementing the tax in such a manner.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody is being disingenuous. Previously, they didn\u2019t state it explicitly that if you buy airtime, they take 6 percent and as to why they didn\u2019t state it I don\u2019t know. Somebody thinks that it will make the government unpopular. Now people are complaining. But they were getting 9.40p from Ghc10 airtime just that it wasn\u2019t stated. So somebody is trying to make government unpopular because the actual increase of the tax is just 50 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe telcos want to make gov\u2019t unpopular because why didn\u2019t send the text mages of the deduction when the tax was 6 percent. They were paying the government and we knew how much we were collecting from them so if any body tells me they were absolved by the Telcos, then that is absurd\u201d, he fumed.<\/p>\n

Ghanaians begun paying more for communication services following the implementation of the 9% Communication Services Tax on October 1, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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