{"id":66064,"date":"2024-02-04T06:42:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/jantuah-smells-imf-in-emission-levy"},"modified":"2024-02-04T07:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T07:28:20","slug":"jantuah-smells-imf-in-emission-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/jantuah-smells-imf-in-emission-levy","title":{"rendered":"Jantuah \u2018smells\u2019 IMF in Emission Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Private legal practitioner, Kwame Jantuah, believes that the Emission Levy was occasioned by the programme between the Government of Ghana and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/b><\/p>\n

He believes that the government introduced the levy as part of the conditions for the release of the $600million second tranche of the $ 3 billion programme with the Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Government] introduced this because of IMF,\u201d he said on February 2 while commenting on the Emission Levy.<\/p>\n

He further told the government that the only way people will resist the imposition of taxes is when they are not aware of what the government is going to use the taxes for.<\/p>\n

To him, the government will have to engage the people and explain to them why certain tax policies are introduced as a way of minimising agitations that will accompany the implementation of the policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is how it is being implemented. The hidden agenda is carbon credit, do they tell us what they use the money for? People are prepared to pay taxes when they know what the taxes are being used for.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are going to bring such a policy that will affect the people then you have to discuss it and engage them.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, the Member of Parliament for Jirapa, Cletus Seidu Dapilah described the Emission Levy as a lazy man\u2019s approach adopted by the government to generate revenue.<\/p>\n

He challenged the government to explain to the people what the money generated from this levy is going to be used for.<\/p>\n

He said on the same show that \u201cThis is lazy man\u2019s approach by taxing vehicle owners and motor. You are collecting the taxes from people, but you don\u2019t tell them what you use the tax for. Let them say what they are going to use Emission Levy for. It is not stated, it is a lazy way and they just want to collect money from the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding this issue, Deputy National Director of A Rocha Ghana, Daryl Bosu, earlier stated that there were several other ways that the government could have gone about this issue of carbon emission rather than introducing the Emission Levy.<\/p>\n

He suggested that the government could have introduced a scheme called \u2018cap and tray\u2019 rather than the levy which he described as a \u2018blanket tax price\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the government really needs to deal with emissions from sectors of the economy because they think they are high emitters of carbon, there are other schemes that the government could have used. One of them has been the \u2018Cap and Trade\u2019 scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere for the particular sector you set a threshold and so as an entity in this particular sector don\u2019t emit beyond this threshold if you do then we are forced to tax you. That would have been better than a blanket tax price for almost every citizen, this is going to affect every sector of our economy,\u201d he said while speaking on Wednesday, January 31.<\/p>\n

Daryl Bosu further indicated that the new Emission Levy tax is unjust.<\/p>\n

He explained that Ghana is on the international stage asking that climate transition must be just because African countries are the least emitters of carbon.<\/p>\n

To that end, he said, it is surprising that the government will turn around and impose such a tax on its people.<\/p>\n

The Emission levy was passed by Ghana\u2019s Parliament last year and was expected to take effect from Thursday, February 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

The Act will impose a levy on carbon dioxide equivalent emissions on internal combustion engine vehicles.<\/p>\n

The implementation of the emissions levy aims to promote the adoption of eco-friendly technology and green energy, contributing to improved environmental management and the control of air and water pollution, according to the Ghana Revenue Authority.<\/p>\n

The Authority stated that individuals obligated to pay the Emissions Levy must complete the registration process and make the levy payments exclusively through the ghana.gov platform.<\/p>\n

Mr Daryl Bosu said \u201cfirst of all the levy is unjust because we are in an international conference saying that climate transition must be just and so don\u2019t tax us in Africa because we are least responsible so why come back home and impose the tax.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the whole global community only about 27 developed countries have actually imposed carbon tax directly on their citizens and there are several other carbon trading schemes around in the world. In Africa, it is only South Africa that has got a semblance of a carbon tax that is in operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we really need to understand that there are several other schemes that we can use and other countries are using that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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