{"id":314318,"date":"2017-04-27T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T09:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314318"},"modified":"2017-04-27T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T09:46:25","slug":"probe-tax-waivers-granted-chinese-company-csos-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/probe-tax-waivers-granted-chinese-company-csos-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe tax waivers granted Chinese company – CSOs to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghanaian civil society groups within the tax space, have urged Parliament to investigate tax waivers granted a Chinese Petrochemical Corporation, the SINOPEC Group, through an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) agreement in 2014.<\/p>\n
The $152 million tax waiver was approved by Parliament on goods and equipment imported or purchased locally for the Western Corridor Gas Infrastructure Development Project.<\/p>\n
Following its conference on illicit financial flows into\u00a0Ghana, the groups, led by the Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC), accused the then Parliament of negligence hence the call.<\/p>\n
In a Citi News<\/strong> interview, ISODEC\u2019s Campaign Coordinator, Dr. Steve Manteaw, said Parliament did not follow the due process, but still found time to approve the tax waivers.<\/p>\n