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Akufo-Addo Has Kept Faith With Ghanaians...It Is Still Boot For Charlie Wate - Bawumia

03-Oct-2019
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The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has rejected claims by the opposition NDC that the Akufo-Addo Government is, contrary to its promise while in opposition, is increasing electricity tariffs rather than reducing them.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) announced a 5.6 per cent increase in electricity tariffs on Monday 30th September, 2019, leading to claims by the opposition that Government had mismanaged the electricity sector, hence the “unprecedented” increase.

But speaking in Accra on Wednesday 2nd October, 2019 Vice President Bawumia insisted that available records do not support the NDC claim, and a comparative analysis of the records would clearly show which party has burdened Ghanaians with high electricity tariffs.

The Nana Akufo-Addo government, the Vice President maintained, had kept faith with Ghanaians and had for the first time in Ghana’s history, cumulatively reduced tariffs since assuming office on January 7, 2017.

“You would have heard that the PURC has increased electricity tariffs by 5.6 per cent. It is very very important for us to have some perspective on this, because electricity has a bearing on the cost of doing business and you have to be having your eye on it so that we don't overburden businesses.

“What was the situation before we came into office? I'll give you a background. In 2010 the average increase in electricity was 89 per cent; 2011 was 10 per cent; 2013 was 78 per cent; 2014 was 28.3 per cent; 2015 was 59.2 per cent. Between 2013 and 2016, just the last four years of the NDC government, the cumulative increase in electricity tariff was cumulatively 166 percent.

“It is against that background that we said ‘this is not good for job creation’. If you want to create jobs you have to reduce the burden of electricity tariffs on our people. And this is why when we came in - and it had never been done before - that we reduced electricity prices for businesses by 30 per cent and for households by 17.5 per cent; average of around 22 per cent in 2018.

“Notwithstanding that, earlier this year in July there was an increase in electricity prices of 11 per cent and yesterday of 5.6 per cent. When you take the total cumulative increase on average, between 2017 and today you have a cumulative decrease of about 5 per cent.

“The NDC in their last four years increased tariffs by 166 per cent; increase. We have come down since we've been in government by about 5 per cent. So it is still boot for charlie wate when you come to electricity tariffs.”

Vice President Bawumia emphasised that Government has undertaken a number of far-reaching reforms and also either reduced or abolished a large number of taxes to further ease the cost and hassle of doing business. Some of these measures include automation of the construction permit system, automatic of the application for business operating permit, various reforms at the Registrar General’s department, paperless port systems, etc.

The Vice President further outlined the various direct tax and import duty reductions so far implemented by the Government. “In 2017, we reduced or abolished 17 nuisance taxes. In particular, we:

o        Abolished excise duty on petroleum

o        Reduced special petroleum tax rate from 17.5% to 15%.

o        Abolished the 1% Special Import Levy

o        Abolished the 17.5% VAT/NHIL on domestic airline tickets

o        Abolished the 17.5% VAT/NHIL on financial services

o        Abolished the 17.5% VAT/NHIL on selected imported medicines, that are not produced locally

o        Abolished the 5% VAT/NHIL on Real Estate sales

o        Abolished import duty on the importation of spare parts.

o        Reduced National Electrification Scheme Levy from 5% to 3% and

“In addition to these import duties were reduced by about 50% in April 2019”, he continued.

Today, Ghana is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and thanks to initiatives like 1D1F and planting for food and jobs, we have shifted from a focus on taxation to a focus on production.

 

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