The Deputy Minister for Tourism, Mark Okraku Mantey has called on the government to shit its focus on online businesses after the passage of E-Levy.
He stated in an interview on GTV that a lot of people are earning more from online businesses, so the government should begin to tax them.
Mr Mantey said this move will ease the burden on the few SMEs who pay tax.
“Again, the small business enterprise comes up in a few years, and they collapse because they are overloaded with some taxes. So, why don’t we expand the scope to help reduce corporate Ghana of taxes? We can distribute it such that you don’t overload the few who have agreed to pay for it”.
“My creative people are selling on YouTube, iTunes, bolt foods, uber. People are now buying clothes online. Are they paying anything to the government? No. After the momo, I think we need to go heavily online and then cyber to see what we can get from there,” he said.
If people want things to be fixed in the country, the Deputy Minister argued they have to contribute their quota.
“So I ask myself, how do we fix these things that make you complain about what you do not contribute?”