{"id":341055,"date":"2017-08-01T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=341055"},"modified":"2017-08-01T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:44:56","slug":"parliamentary-cttee-recommends-implementation-of-controversial-tow-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/parliamentary-cttee-recommends-implementation-of-controversial-tow-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary c’ttee recommends implementation of ‘controversial’ tow tax"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Roads and Transport Committee of Parliament has recommended that government implement the mandatory tow tax.<\/p>\n
This follows the Transport Ministry’s decision to consult the Committee after the implementation was halted initially following public outcry.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”YL64v4AprVxA69FcaxRXoLZzz8FhI0ws”]Chairman of the Road and Transport Committee of Parliament and Member of Parliament for Ayensuano, Samuel Ayepaye, however, indicated the Ministry must intensify its sensitization activities before the programmed is rolled out.<\/p>\n
Mr.\u00a0Ayepaye said the Ministry did not do enough “in terms of education and sensitisation before they rolled out the project so we have given them up to the end of August to intensify their campaign and get the project implemented.”<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Transport and other agencies, including the Road Safety Commission, the Ghana Consumer Protection Agency, GPRTU, Road Transport\u00a0 Coordinating Council, among others, along with the media, held discussions on the matter.<\/p>\n
The private operator and private tow truck companies\u00a0were also invited for discussions on the implementation of the tow tax.<\/p>\n
“The National Road Safety Commission gave us a list of the stakeholders. We invited them all\u2026 all the private towing trucks that are existing. We do not want a system that will collapse the individual and private towing truck operators.\u201d<\/p>\n
Report not binding<\/strong><\/p>\n The committee’s report does not bind the Minister since it wasn\u2019t a referral from the Speaker, but Mr.\u00a0Ayepaye noted that \u201cthe Minister is to look at the report and then look at the recommendations in the report and then he will decide whether to continue with the project or not.\u201d<\/p>\n Among the recommendations, the operator has been urged to \u201cabsorb other small towing truck systems in the contract so that other private and small scale towing truck services will not be affected.\u201d<\/p>\n