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Assist Religious Groups To Create Jobs Before Tax- Chairman Wontumi

28-Apr-2014
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Chairman of the largest opposition NPP in the Ashanti region, Bernard Antwi Boasiako has admonished the Mahama led administration of the NDC to put in place a deliberate policy that will offer assistance to well-meaning religious groups from both the Christian and Islamic sects in Ghana, to create the badly needed jobs for the teeming unemployed youth before considering instituting a tax regime against them.

Chairman Wontumi as he’s affectionately called, re-iterated that apart from the broader mandate of religious groups to bring salvation to the people, it is strategically positioned to create job opportunities for the citizenry to complement government’s effort in that direction but this would require support from the government of the day.

With such a policy in place the NPP chairman noted that, government will be justified in taxing their activities since they will be profitably oriented.

The regional Chairman’s preposition was in reaction to a recent debate in some political quarters that government should tax the various religious bodies in the country as part of efforts to broaden the tax net and generate more revenue for the country’s developmental needs.

Expatiating more on his admonishment, the NPP regional Chairman described as a wrong move any attempt to tax religious bodies in their current state, adding that the little income generated by these religious bodies largely come from the very poor in society mostly unemployed, in the form of collections, tithes and other special contributions.

These people he noted go there to find solace and spiritual upliftment with the hope of receiving divine intervention. The little contributions which they have made are used to implement pro poor programmes in health; water and sanitation etc. to the larger benefit of the majority poor in society.

Taxing the religious organization therefore will mean indirectly passing the burden onto the needy majority who are mostly present in churches and mosques, he added.

Pitching his argument against the Population distribution of Ghana, Mr. Boasiako noted that available statistics has shown that out of a potentially employable active labour force of about 18 million out of the total 26 million Ghanaian populace, only about 10 million are gainfully employed from both formal and informal sectors, thus leaving a whopping 8 million jobless.

He is however convinced that with such a deliberate policy of assisting viable religious groups who have clear cut business ideas to go into serious job creation activities in trade, construction, industry, commerce etc., the 8 million unemployment gap could be narrowed, thus given more jobs to the people and making them (religious organizations)and the individual beneficiaries taxable.

Chairman Wontumi said anything far from this, will mean putting the tax burden of the religious bodies indirectly on the jobless and poor congregation, since the religious bodies will eventually pay these taxes from the contributions of the poor masses.

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