MP for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, has criticized Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s tax amnesty pledge, calling it a mere political tactic rather than a meaningful policy proposal.
Adongo dismissed the Vice President’s suggestion, arguing that tax amnesty is already a standard compliance approach used by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to encourage tax evaders to comply with tax laws.
He emphasized that presenting tax amnesty as a campaign pledge is deceptive, especially considering its repeated lack of success in the past under the current administration.
“Tax amnesty is a compliance approach used by the Ghana Revenue Authority and not something Bawumia should have used as a campaign promise.
“It is a trap. He has done this three times and failed because after seeing the tax evaders, he added more taxes which became a disincentive,” onuaonline.com quoted him to have said in an interview on Onua TV on March 21, 2024.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has pledged to grant tax amnesty to businesses and individuals with outstanding tax arrears if he is given the mandate to rule Ghana in 2025.
Isaac Adongo, the MP for Bolgatanga Central, criticized Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s tax amnesty pledge, calling it a mere political tactic rather than a meaningful policy proposal.
Adongo dismissed the Vice President’s suggestion, arguing that tax amnesty is already a standard compliance approach used by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to encourage tax evaders to comply with tax laws.
He emphasized that presenting tax amnesty as a campaign pledge is deceptive, especially considering its repeated lack of success in the past under the current administration.
“I am going to start with a clean slate in 2025, and that is why in 2025, we are going to grant a tax amnesty to all businesses and individuals and start afresh.
“All businesses and individuals will have a tax amnesty, and we will start afresh,” he said.