The Deputy Minority Leader of Parliament, Patricia Appiagyei, has criticised President John Dramani Mahama for allegedly failing to cancel all levies and taxes he promised to abolish in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.
Speaking in an interview on Angel FM on 15 May 2025, Appiagyei, who is the Member of Parliament for Asokwa, accused President Mahama of failing to cancel all the levies he pledged to abolish.
She claimed that the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy), which the government claims to have cancelled, is still being charged in another form.
“Mr President, you have not done well. You told Ghanaians that you would cancel the COVID-19 levy, but now you are explaining that the World Bank has done what and so on. Were you unaware of all of these things?
“Today, even with the E-Levy, if you want, just check your transaction – it is there in disguise. He said he has removed it, but because there is no name for it now, it is still there,” she said.
She added, “Apart from E-Levy, which other tax has been repealed? No levy has been repealed… He mentioned so many things (levies), but today, he has not been able to do anything about them.”
Source: Ghanaweb