The Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the 2016 elections, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has taken a swipe at government after reports suggested allowances and pension contributions might now be taxed.
Dr Bawumia, speaking with students at the EP College of Education at Amedzofe Wednesday, said that the proposed taxes- Finance Minister Seth Terkper first made the suggestion- showed how the NDC government are desperate to place taxes on everything, to raise revenue to cover the hole they have dug the country into.
“In their desperation to fill the hole they have dug, the government imposed taxes on condoms, cutlasses, savings; today they are imposing taxes on pensions and allowances” he began.
The former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana added that the government would not hesitate to tax any product, saying that they would tax even the air we breathe if they could manage it.
“Anything they think they can impose taxes on, they are imposing taxes on it – even if they think they could impose taxes on the air we breathe today, they would have imposed taxes on it.
“An NPP government will build the most business friendly and most people friendly economy in Africa. This means that job creation will be at the heart of economic policy.” He added.
Meanwhile, government has denied considering tax hikes- with the President tweeting last night that “Government has no intention of introducing new taxes.”
It’s not like they’ve never lied to us before.

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