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Ghana’s parliament has rejected the government’s 2022 budget proposal due to concerns over an electronic banking levy.
Ghana’s finance minister, Ken Ofori-Artta, had on November 17, announced the country’s plan to introduce 1.75% levy on all electronic transactions including on mobile money payments, bank transfers and merchant payments from January to widen the tax net.
At the parliament on Friday, the ruling party, New Patriotic Party lawmakers walked out after accusing the house speaker of bias because he said the finance minister should not be present during the vote.
According to Reuters, a vote was conducted in their absence, and the opposition rejected the budget.
In a tweet afterwards, opposition lawmaker, Sam George wrote “The 2022 budget has been rejected by parliament”.
“We as a minority took a stand with the people of Ghana to reject a budget that had the obnoxious E-Levy, increased government fees and charges. Victory for Ghana,” he said.
This means the ruling party will now have to negotiate with the opposition party in parliament to reach a compromise over the budget proposal.
Poland is not planning any new lockdowns or other restrictions despite skyrocketing COVID-19 infections and deaths. Other governments in Europe have imposed new restrictions in hopes of mitigating surging infections.
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