{"id":300010,"date":"2017-03-08T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=300010"},"modified":"2017-03-08T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T06:00:45","slug":"govt-to-lay-bill-on-abolished-taxes-before-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=300010","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t to lay Bill on abolished taxes before Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government will soon lay before Parliament, the necessary instruments that would give legal backing to the scrapping and review of some taxes, the Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has revealed.<\/p>\n

According to the Suame MP, the revisiew or abolition of over ten taxes in the 2017 budget, will only take effect after approval from Parliament.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media on Tuesday, he said it was imperative Parliament approved the taxes before the budget is even approved.<\/p>\n

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Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The budget is a very business-like matter before us and we\u2019ll have to apply critical thinking and analysis to it. Once we are through with it, we also may need to deal with a lot of money Bills because the Finance Minister related to a lot of taxes; some of them to abolished, some to be reconfigured and so on and so forth.”<\/p>\n

“These money bills, we may have to approve off before the appropiriation bill is concluded because they will have a direct impact on the budget, the outturns and the outcomes of the budget,” the Majority Leader explained further.<\/p>\n

Anytime from today [Wednesday], Mr.\u00a0Mensah Bonsu added, the money bills will start coming to Parliament for the relevant referrals to be made.<\/p>\n

RTI Bill likely to come before House in May<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Mensah-Bonsu also stated that, the Right to Information Bill, is likely to be re-laid before Parliament for the process of approval when the second meeting of the house begins in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the considerations that went into it, I guess the new government would have to factor in those considerations before being re-laid in this new parliament. It is my anticipation that, the next meeting which likely will be mid-May, that Bill may have a resurrection in the Parliament of Ghana.”<\/p>\n

The Right to Information Bill was drafted in 1999 and reviewed in 2003, 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n

The first attempt at enacting the law on the right to information was made when the Bill was presented to Parliament on February 5, 2010.<\/p>\n

The 6th<\/sup>\u00a0Parliament of the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Republic, failed to pass the Right to Information Bill which has been on the Floor of Parliament since 2013.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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