The Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy) inflows and the percentage spent on infrastructural development so far must be made public, according to the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry (GhCCI), who is demanding this information from the Ministry of Finance.
The government zealously promoted the use of the e-levy proceeds to fund infrastructural development in the country when urging Ghanaians to adopt the tax regime.
Speaking to the media after its annual general meeting, executive member of GhCCI Surveyor Osei Asante claims that the Chamber afterwards accepted the e-levy on the basis of this claim and is now requesting that the government make these disclosures right away.
“The Chamber gave its tacit support to the E-levy when we met the President,” surveyor Asante reiterated.
He continued: “Apart from the hue and cry about it, we realized that gradually people are paying, we realized that inflows are coming. So we want them to do an assessment of it and as they promised us that most of it would be for the construction industry, how much has so far been allocated to it.”
The Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry also threatened to sue the government and take over institutions built under government contractors.
They are therefore demanding the outstanding debts amounting to over 8 billion cedis owed its members.