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Reject 2022 budget – Bernard Mornah tells Parliament
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Vida Essel-LampteyPolitical activist and former National Chairman of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Mr Bernard Mornah has called on Parliament to reject the 2022 budget.
That he said was because the budget as presented had no hope for the suffering Ghanaian in anyway.
Mr Mornah made the call on Pan African TV‘s Good Morning Africa on Friday, November 19, monitored by GhanaPlus.com.
According to him, the crippling fiscal policy contained in the budget should be enough reasons for parliament to take the bold decision and ask government to re-present it.
…Sincerely this is not the kind of parliament that has capacity to reject a budget and therefore they can do what they want to do because they know it will pass. Otherwise, let the budget be rejected let them re-present the budget because the many crippling fiscal policy ideas are in this budget alone should be the reasons for which the budget should be rejected” There is no hope, Mr Mornah.
“In this same budget, the government is telling us that all the youth programmes they are running are useless, starting from the National Entrepreneurship and Innovative Programme, National Youth Employment programme, to the Nations Builders Corp, the government is telling us that they are useless,” he added.
2022 Budget Statement
The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori Atta in accordance with Article 179 of the 1992 constitution of Ghana on Wednesday, November 17, presented ‘The Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana for the 2022 Financial Year”
The budget tagged “Agenkwa Budget” announced the abolishment of tolls on all public roads in the country, a 1.75 percent charge on all electronic transactions above ₵100 and ‘YouStart’ a 1million jobs creation initiative with a seed capital of ₵1billion.
It also announced a review of benchmark values, reduction of withholding tax on sale of unprocessed gold, review of the VAT Flat Rate System (VFRS), reduction in power tariff and a two-year tax relief for textile manufacturers among many others.
Source: GhanaPlus.com
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