{"id":28322,"date":"2014-06-30T06:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=28322"},"modified":"2014-06-30T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:59:58","slug":"govt-suspends-implementation-of-17-5-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=28322","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t suspends implementation of 17.5% VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> has gathered that government has directed the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to suspend the implementation of the 17.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charges on non-core financial services.<\/p>\n<p>Industry, the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF) and unionized workers have been pressurizing government to withdraw the 17.5 per cent VAT.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the move will further cripple their businesses which are already reeling under the pressures of power interruption and unfavourable business environment.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear yet if government is suspending the implementation of the 17.5 percent VAT because of the pressures from these quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ghana Revenue Authority is expected to officially announce the decision today and explain the reasons for the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi Business News has gathered that government has directed the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to suspend the implementation of the 17.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charges on non-core financial services. Industry, the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF) and unionized workers have been pressurizing government to withdraw the 17.5 per cent VAT. According to them, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43,38,4],"class_list":["post-28322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}