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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has praised the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration’s accomplishments in the field of job creation, asserting that between 2017 and 2022, the administration generated 2.1 million new jobs.
He claims that this amazing development has occurred in spite of the world economic crisis.
Speaking on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at his first lecture as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Vice President Bawumia revealed that, according to SSNIT data, the private sector created 975,000 jobs, while the public sector hired 1.2 million people.
”We recruited 100,000 more health workers, 100,000 more teachers and more than doubled Fire Service personnel and so on. Our government clearly has created more jobs in the last seven years than any other government in the fourth Republic. This is truly remarkable under the circumstances even though we still have to create more jobs.”
According to Dr. Bawumia, this government has managed to keep the country’s ship afloat despite the economic downturn.
”In the face of the crisis, overall performance of the economy in areas such as GDP growth, industrial growth, trade balance growth, gross international reserves and job created has demonstrated resilience. Available data also shows that notwithstanding the challenging economy we inherited and the global economic crisis that ensued, government has chalked a large number of achievements across the country.”
If elected into office, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has promised to remove the contentious electronic transaction levy taxes, or “E-Levy.”
But in order to do so, he said, more people must be persuaded to use electronic payment methods.
“To accomplish this, there will be no taxes on digital payments under my administration. The e-levy will therefore be abolished,” Dr Bawumia stated.
A 1.5% levy is applied to e-transactions as of Sunday, May 1, 2022, as part of the e-levy. It includes bank transfers, merchant payments, mobile money payments, and inward remittances. For transactions up to GH¢100 per day, there is an exemption.
The government claimed that the tax was a component of its attempts to increase tax revenue and broaden the tax base for development.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
