{"id":67364,"date":"2014-11-22T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=67364"},"modified":"2014-11-22T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T06:06:10","slug":"imf-dictated-ghanas-17-5-petroleum-tax-tuc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/imf-dictated-ghanas-17-5-petroleum-tax-tuc\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF behind 17.5% Petroleum Tax \u2013 TUC"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is accusing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of masterminding the controversial 17.5% Special Petroleum Tax<\/strong><\/a><\/span> that was approved by Parliament on Wednesday<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Speaking on Eyewitness News <\/strong>on Friday, the Deputy Secretary General of the TUC, Dr Yaw Baah said, \u201cWe find it extremely surprising that government will allow the IMF to dictate to them and say impose VAT on petroleum products.\u201d<\/p>\n He said we \u201c…have a situation, where we are struggling and you have a government impose VAT on petroleum products when we are already crying. VAT is regressive and so progressive countries don\u2019t really duel so much on it. That is why we should not allow the IMF to dictate to us.\u201d<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”K7JSUESk7anMMyuaPK3IKg4FubTiJB4d”]Dr Baah also described the \u201cdecision to move from Senchi to IMF\u201d as \u201cvery unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou are running a country and you have stakeholders and you brought all of us together and we all agreed that this is the path that we want to take. Even if you want to do U-turn you consult, you don\u2019t just go ahead and say you are going to IMF it doesn\u2019t matter what anyone will say,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n