Some Vehicle owners have threatened to embark on demonstration on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 against the luxurious vehicle tax imposed by the government.
The group, made up of the Vehicle And Asset Dealers Association (VADAG), the National Concerned Spare Parts Dealers Association (NCSPDA), True Drivers Union (TDU), Concerned Drivers Association (CDA), Ghana Committed Drivers Association (GCDA) and the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC), say they will drive their "luxurious vehicles numbering about 2000 to the premises of the Ministry of Finance, Parliament house and the Jubilee house respectively" to register their displeasure with the tax directive.
Read full statement below:
VEHICLE AND ASSET DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF GHANA,
NATIONAL CONCERNED SPARE PARTS DEALERS ASSOCIATION,
TRUE DRIVERS UNION,
CONCERNED DRIVERS ASSOCIATION,
GHANA COMMITTED DRIVERS ASSOCIATION,
CHAMBER OF PETROLEUM CONSUMERS.
ACCRA.
13TH FEBRUARY, 2019.
PRESS RELEASE.
The above mentioned associations with this press release wish to inform the media and the public of their decision to demonstrate in Accra on 19th February 2019 against the luxurious vehicle tax imposed on us by the government.
We intend to drive our luxurious vehicles numbering about 2000 to the premises of the Ministry of Finance, Parliament house and the Jubilee house respectively.
The demonstration is scheduled at 8am on the said date. The route will be from Obra Spot through Kwame Nkrumah avenue to Farisco Traffic light through to TUC before leaving our vehicles at institutions mentioned above.
The media is cordially invited.
.......Signed......
Eric K. Boateng
(VADAG Chairman)
0244695900
Nana Yaw Owusu-Duodu
(VADAG, Secretary)
0244051798
Kwabena Agyei
(NCSPDA, Chairman)
Takyi Addo
(NCSPDA, PRO)
Yaw Barimah
(TDU, PRO)
Paa Willie
(CDA, Chairman)
David Agboado (CDA, PRO)
Charles Danso
(GCDA, Chairman)
Duncan Amoah
(COPEC, Executive Sec.)
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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If it is because of bad road that you bought 3.6 engine capacity now Nana Abodani is fixing them so sell it out and get small engine capacity like 1.1 now we have them in the system. OR rent them to NAM 1 when he comes back.
is ford Escape 2008 a luxury car. engine capacity 3.00. i bought this car as a poor public servant because of our bad roads. there is nothing luxurious about this car. so frank agyena speak wisely and not like a fooooooooool. for we are suffering.
Ghanaian's want asphalt road even to their toilet but will complain about every initiative from government. Government goes for loan, we say buee, tax also say buee. Should the government use Sakawa money for development? A yearly 1500 tax should not be the basis for demonstration. In fact, each person going for that demonstration will loose more than the money in question on that very day. I will rather charge the users to go after the government to fix your road for you since you are paying more. That will make sense.
I support this government, but this is a very disturbing tax. I purchased my jeep grand cherokee 2012 model with 3.6 engine capacity for $9,000 in the U.S. I paid $15,000 duty at the port in Ghana. In Ghana duty is assessed based on, among other things, engine capacity. So, the $15,000 I paid already incorporates engine capacity. I also pay more in petroleum taxes because the 3.6 engine consumes more petrol. The first thing that happened after I paid this duty was to drive the car through "man holes" to my house. If the $15,000 (or about 75,000 cedis) duty I paid, plus the huge petroleum taxes I pay anytime I fuel my car cannot help develop the country, how much the 2,000 cedis annual luxury tax? It is sad that our politicians think we are all ***barred word***. I live in Ghana and the united states. I would have paid only 8% sales tax on the purchase price if I were to use the car in the united states, which would be only $720 or just 3,600 cedis. Yet, roads are so good here in the united states. But I paid $15,000 (or 75,000 cedis) duty in Ghana, only to see man holes and a nuisance luxury car tax every year. People must rise up to politicians!!! The other political party is even worse!!!
Y3 BRE3EEE, IS GHANA NOT FOR ALL OF US, WHICH KIND OF TAX IS THIS. AFTER TAXING EVERYTHING INCLUDING TOILET ROLL, SMALL LIFE ONE NEEDS ENJOY TOO GOVERNMENT AND ITS PARASTATALS WANT DENY US.HOW IWISH I LIVE IN ACCRA, I WIOULD HAVE PARKED OLD RICKETE LIMO RIGHT IN FRONT OF OFORI-ATTA'S OFFICE. NNNKWAAASIA ASEM, NNNNNKWASIA TAX. REMOVE IT OR REVIEW OR FORGET ABOUT 2020. NOT EVEN YOUR FREE SHS WILL SAVE. ANTWAY NOBODY FORCE NANA ADDO. HE SAID DURING THE INTERVIEW THAT, THERE'S ENOUGH CASH FOR THAT POLICY AND GHANAIANS HAVE EMBRACED IT
Is KIA Sorento a luxury car? Those supporting this tax now would have made noise and cursed if it were to be another regime in charge. Now they find it convenient to rob salt into our injuries. If the government fails to remove this obnoxious tax, we vote them out. Are pick ups luxury cars? Aba!
All you have to do is vote the bad guy out, period))
the rich would always feed the poor. please pay the tax so we could provide free education to our students. do you even pay your income and corporate taxes?
Now I know the NPP is a socialist party. Nana came promising free this and free that, only to attempt to rob Peter yo pay Paul. The politicians are the enemies of country. Most Ghanaians are so ***barred word*** because of the failed educational system, and these politicians keep duping them. Notice how they get to drive their V8 landcruisers tax free, while a minivan for a family gets taxed 1000% from last year. There are no jobs, roads are bad, justice system is corrupt. The whole nation needs to have a demonstration, but we are a tribally divided people. Some one is happy while you are suffering- tribal politics - and doesn't care about you. Here is my proposal, eliminate tribal division in Ghana. We must all speak one language l, English. Check out the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel. The people were unstoppable when the all spoke one language. To thwart their efforts God confounded them with different languages and then they scattered. There hasn't been a people more linguistically divided than subsaharan Africans and Indians. How do you think the British managed to colonize these two regions, and until now the most backwards people are subsaharan Africans and Indians. The truth is our culture is messed up and we need to admit it and change. To what though? I would the Bible. Let's forget this "Sankofa" ***barred word***, reject idol worship, and embrace the fear of God.
Government should remove this tax is a bogus policy. We can not support every policy of this government.