According to him, the posture of the NPP before the 2016 General Elections was that taxation is a lazy man’s approach to raising revenue, and if they won the elections, they would move the country from taxation to production. His comments come after the commentary by communicators of the government that it is either Ghanaians accepting the E-levy or the country opts for an International Monterey Fund bailout.
“I am completely shocked that anybody from the government side, can today be saying that the only option for mobilizing resources is through taxation. Because this is a government that came to power claiming that taxation and loans are lazy man’s option to mobilizing resources for development, so how has that changed all of a sudden?”, He quizzed on the Good Morning Ghana Show on Metro TV, today, December 22.
Meanwhile, Honourable Andrews Kofi Egyapa Mercer, the Deputy Minister for Energy and the Member of Parliament for the Sekondi Constituency, who was the NPP panelist on the show disagreed with the submission of Mr. Kwesi Pratt Junior. The Sekondi-legislator maintained that the NPP was consistent with moving the country from taxation to production until COVID-19 struck. He asserted that the pandemic has ravaged the economics of many countries in the world that have to think outside the box to raise revenue to bring their economics back on their feet. The lawmaker also argued that the financial sector clean-up and the energy sector clean-up have dwindled the financial fortune of the country putting the economy in a bad state.
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