The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Lawyer Sammy Gyamfi, has announced that a future NDC government will abolish the e-levy tax imposed by the Akufo-Addo government.
In an interview with Accra based Joy FM on Wednesday, Mr. Gyamfi reiterated that the decision is a party position taken by the whole of the NDC’s leadership.
“The General Secretary of the party has already said so. He’s my boss. He’s the Chief Executive Officer of the party, [and] he has said so. And I believe that he has the blessing of the leadership of the party, and that is a party position, that we do not subscribe to the E-levy, and we will not continue to take E-levy from Ghanaians should power change hands,” Gyamfi stated.
“Because we need to bring honesty to the politics we do in this country. If the E-levy is bad now, it cannot be good in 2025. And I believe that the NDC will stand by that position the General Secretary has announced. I’m even looking for a situation where that will be captured expressly in our 2024 manifesto”, he stated.
Earlier, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the NDC’s General Secretary had vowed that the party would abolish the controversial levy which taxes capital, within hundred days, if it wins the election and forms the next government.
“It is not taxation. It is daylight robbery. Taking people’s capital from their pockets. We will abolish it within the first 100 days we assume power,” he had said.
Sammy Gyamfi reiterated that the levy is tantamount to double taxation and therefore an infliction on already impoverished Ghanaians.