The Majority Leader in Parliament Mahama Ayariga and by extension Shamima Muslim both have good reason to describe the new dumsor tax as miniscule and therefore insignificant.
The Majority Leader has cause to describe the addition as a mere one cedi. After all the state takes care of lot of personal expenses including fuel.
Not refusing to embrace the D Levy the advanced form of E Levy cannot be an option for appointees for who GHC 20,000 is nothing in their pockets as Shamima once remarked.
Although just five months into their administration as a government the NDC is fumbling with the throttles of governance.
As we pointed out in an earlier submission on this hullabaloo about a backdoor dumsor tax it is an action which points at a government struggling to manage a situation.
Whether it is about dealing with the dumsor problem head-on and permanently or not through such a tax as we are being told the truth is that a decision must be taken and those who do so must be responsible for the repercussions therefrom.
We can see the former government members smiling as the NDC fumbles with the controls of governance.
They put all manner of spanners into the spooks of governance when the NPP was in charge.
As fate would have it things are not adding up and those who once said there is something they can do to obviate tax imposition are sweating challenged to impose a tax willy nilly.
Ordinarily when a government must change course because of an emerging challenge there should be no fuss about it. That after all is governance and it requires those at the controls to be adaptive to circumstances.
Unfortunately however the party whose government took over from its predecessors is embroiled in so much propaganda that we would only take every word that cometh out their mouth with a pinch of salt.
It has emerged and strangely so that we as a people were unable to do 1 percent electronic transaction as tax but GHC1 for dumsor levy.
And even here a politician/pastor has gone to town with a propaganda that has exposed him big time.
Prophet Kofi Oduro as some of his followers call him claimed that he paid GHC30,000 as E Levy on a GHC300,000 transaction. And to think that a so-called Man of God will disgrace himself with such a fallacy is despicable. He tried to no avail to give E-Levy a bad name so it can be hanged. The E-Levy stated that the first ghc100 daily transfer is exempt from taxation.
One percent of the GHC299000 is GHC2,999 and not GHC300,000.
Unsurprisingly this man has avoided sermonizing on the dumsor levy.
It has been interesting following the faceoff between government and oil marketers. But for their independence the marketers would have suffered dismissals from their ranks for daring the government over the deadline for the implementation of the new prices.
