The Deputy Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul has said he is not convinced that President John Mahama paid taxes on the Ford vehicle he received as a gift from the Burkinabe Contractor, Djibril Kanazoe According to him, claims by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) that the president satisfied all laws were not accurate.
He explained in an interview with Citi News that gifts are taxable by law and since the president confessed that the car was a gift he ought to have been paid taxes on it. “In Ghana when you receive a gift from any source and once you term it a gift you must pay some form of taxes on it.
So when the CHRAJ says that the President erred on a policy, it was not a policy it is a law.
If somebody is claiming that the President had paid all the taxes it is not true, it is just an afterthought maybe it is a corrective measure that somebody has taken because that person is in CHRAJ, it is a bribe but CHRAJ is trying to say that it is a gift. It is very unethical.”
“I can tell you clearly that if there is a God that is watching us, that God can testify that the President did not pay that gift tax.
When this matter broke up if the Presidency had that information because these were the questions everybody was asking that information would have been brought out long time,” he added.
CHRAJ report
CHRAJ in its report released on Thursday after investigating the Ford gift saga, stated that President Mahama breached the gift policy, when he accepted the gift from a Burkinabe contractor as Vice President in 2012.
CHRAJ said the gift in question, formed part of acts prohibited under the ‘Gift Policy’ under the Code of Conduct, and that although the evidence shows that President Mahama subsequently surrendered the gift to the State, the action nonetheless contravened the gift policy.
It however noted that, it did not find the President guilty of bribery, fraud or conflict of.
CHRAJ report shames critics
But the Co-ordinator of the 2016 National Democratic Congress (NDC) campaign, Kofi Adams argued that the CHRAJ report vindicates the president.
“Today is a day of shame for them, they [critics] have been exposed that they are only trying to destroy a gem, a pearl that we have,” he said.
Source: citifmonline.com
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The NDC ido.ts on this platform would do themselves a lot of good if they simply acquaint themselves with the tax laws of this country. Or if they cannot read, as expected, they should seek proper advice before exposing their obnoxio.us ignorance.
How ***barred word*** is that guy, do you pay taxes on gifts, as we are made to understand that the ford was a gift.
Guys, let's stop the politics of insult and talks of the issue on board, Nitiwul had spoke of his mind and he is entitle to that. So lets here your mind instead of attacking him. Whatever we shows here exhibit our character. tnx.
Id.iot! You pay tax on things that you own. Mahama doesn't own the vehicle and he doesn't use it. The vehicle is part of the official pool of vehicles at the presidency.
Id.iot! You pay tax on things that you won. Mahama doesn't won the vehicle and he doesn't use it. The vehicle is part of the official pool of vehicles at the presidency.
SO WHO ARE YOU TELLING?? WHY DON'T YOU DO WHAT YOU ARE PAID TO DO AS A LEGISLATOR??!!
Nitiwul has expressed how ***barred word*** he is about the tax laws of Ghana. Are gifts taxable? Note worthy is also the fact that the said Ford is not in the personal use of the President but is added to the States fleet of official vehicles. How then should the President pay tax on it? Is Nitiwul's call akin to blog headedness? I think Nitiwul is only refusing to admit the truth and projecting how ***barred word*** he is even though he is a leading figure of our legislature. Nitiwul is an ***barred word*** legislature. he needed schooling on tax matters.
DOMINIC WO TI EWU SE KRAMAN TI NITIWUL. ARE YOU A TAX COMMISSIONER? ABOOOOOOA BA NORTHERNER, WHILE ALL YOUR NORTHERN BROTHERS ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM THESE EVIL MEN, YOU ARE RUNNING TOWARDS THEM. THAT IS WHY THEY CONSIDER YOU AS DOG EATERS AND CATTLE HERDERS AND BACKWARD THINKERS. IF NOT SO LET THEM EXPLAIN WHY THEY WANT AFOKO TO COME BACK AND HELP THEM WITH HIS WEALTH. THEY GAVE BAWUMIAH A FULANI WIFE, ALIENS BY BIRTH. AND CALL VOLTARIANS TOGOLEES, THEY CALL ANTHONY CARBO A ***barred word*** BECAUSE HE STOLE NANA'S PHONE, THEY POURED ACID ON A NORTHERN CHAIRMAN AND FRAMED GREGORY FOR IT AFOKO TO USE HIM AS BAIT TO LURE HIS BROTHER BACK. THEY USED MANASSEH ASURI TO CONCUCT THE FORD SAGA AND NOW THEY ARE USING YOU TO PUSH FURTHER THAT AGENDA SO IF YOU ARE NOT S2,UPID AS THEY THOUGHT YOU TO BE, I DON'T THINK YOU WILL MAKE SUCH A COMMENT.