CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Ken Ashigbey has commended the Government of Ghana for taking into consideration from the Telecoms chambers’ data-led research that was conducted to review the proposed E-levy tax.
According to him the subsequent downward revision of theE-levy is already beginning to yield results.
The opening session of the #MT4D2023 conference was on the theme; Driving Digital Financial Inclusion in the real economy and was held at the Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel, Accra.
Giving the opening remarks at the 2023 edition of the ‘Mobile technology for Development Conference’, Mr. Ashigbey further reiterated the chambers’ commitment to churning out data-led insightful researches to inform policy in the Telecommunications industry.
According to the CEO of the Telco Chamber, a comprehensive industry focused report has already been presented to the Ministry of Finance and the Ghana Revenue Authority in that regard.
“Additionally taking a cue from the collaborations that drove the chamber, the GRA and other stakeholders with the mandate from the Economic Management Team to embark on research in line with data-led policy review of the e-levy the chamber has collaborated with GSMA who have experience in this direction to conduct further research”
“Unlike the 2 former editions, where we discussed the GSMA mobile money report, this year we will have the launch of the research that will continue with the work we started with the GRA. Yesterday we presented the work to the Ministry of Finance and the GRA as well”.
“I want to commend the Government for listening to the insights that came from the first research and reduce the e-levy from 1.5 to 1% an action that from anecdotal evidence is beginning to yield results.” He said.
Mr. Ken Ashigbey expressed his appreciation to the office of the Vice-President and the Ministry of Communications for their continuous support for the country’s biggest technology conference.
He further added that conversations scheduled for Mobile Technology for Development Conference.
The MT4D2023 conference aims to bring together experts on issues within the educational, digital finance and agritech and digitized payments to explore the challenges and showcase successful solutions and case studies of how digital finance is impacting these sectors.
Source: Chamber News Desk
