E-Levy

This comes as President John Dramani Mahama assented to the Electronic Transfer Levy Act, 2022 (Act 1075) and the Electronic Transfer Levy (Amendment) Act, 2022 (Act 1089) bill, which abolishes …

Together, the E-levy and COVID-19 levy are projected to generate over GH¢5 billion in revenue, with GH¢2.1 billion from the E-levy and GH¢3.172 billion from the COVID-19 levy.

The E-levy charge covers mobile money payments, bank transfers, merchant payments, and inward remittances (Ghana Revenue Authority, 2022).

The newest voice is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber who wants the rate to be reduced from 1.5% to 0.1%.

“E-levy can be made better. It can be made more efficient. Let us reduce the rate to 0.5% and I am sure we can raise a lot of revenue,” Prof. …

The survey report released by CDD-Ghana shows, out of the total sample size, only 9 percent of Ghanaians are confident that the government will use revenue from the E-levy to …

So some policy analysts and journalists have described Gabby’s tweet as a mind game on Ghanaians to pave way for government to announce intent of going to the IMF since …

Teacher unions including NAGRAT, GNAT and others have given a June 30th deadline for government to pay the allowance or face a series of industrial actions.

According to the chamber, per the current law, salaries that are paid via mobile money would attract the 1.5% charge, whereas salaries paid through banks will not attract any E-levy. …

Although the telcos have assured to do their best to ensure the required systems are put in place to collect the E-levy, they say, the right infrastructure must be put …