{"id":179682,"date":"2016-01-07T05:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=179682"},"modified":"2016-01-07T05:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:58:15","slug":"past-govts-also-built-schools-didnt-kill-ghanaians-with-taxes-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/past-govts-also-built-schools-didnt-kill-ghanaians-with-taxes-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Gov’ts also built schools; didn’t ‘kill’ Ghanaians with taxes – NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed the reasons given by the government for recent increases in various taxes and tariffs.<\/p>\n
According to the NPP, the government’s rationale for the tax hikes does not justify the ‘astronomical’ increases of between 18 to 27% on the prices of petroleum products.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”gtVx0XlYaRy59ZcOhWET1T6VuIwly7vD”]Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Wednesday, the Communications Director of the NPP, Nana Akomeah, stated that the NDC-led administration’s expenditure on several development projects are not enough of an excuse to impose such taxes on Ghanaians.<\/p>\n He opined that\u00a0past governments in the country’s history have undertaken similar development projects but none, prior to the current administration, had overwhelmed the citizens with such taxes.<\/p>\n “Every government in the history of this country including the colonial government built roads, built schools, built bridges but they did not kill Ghanaians with taxes. They can\u2019t tell us they want to build roads and then kill us with taxes,” Nana Akomeah stated.<\/p>\n The tax hikes have been criticised widely with several experts and groups including the Trades Union Congress (TUC).<\/p>\n