{"id":241424,"date":"2016-08-21T08:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T08:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241424"},"modified":"2016-08-21T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T08:20:23","slug":"only-residential-users-should-pay-energy-levies-former-agi-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/only-residential-users-should-pay-energy-levies-former-agi-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Only residential users should pay energy levies \u2013 Former AGI president"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former President of the Association of Ghana Industries [AGI], Tony Oteng Gyasi, is impressing on government to limit the imposition of the energy sector levies to residential users of petroleum products only.<\/p>\n
According to him, the imposition of the taxes on all categories of petroleum users (both industrial and domestic), is to the disadvantage of industry.<\/p>\n
Mr.\u00a0Gyasi explains that the development increases the cost of operation which makes it difficult for businesses to expand and employ more people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems to be that we should look at the situation where the energy levies are put on only the residential users. Over the last five years or so, industries have paid more than residential users so if there have been a subsidy, they have been granted to residential users,\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than burdening industry further, the levies should be on residential users and I think that may be a more realizable way of looking at things,\u201d the former AGI boss stated.<\/p>\n