Government’s confusion on the supposed pension tax smacks of incompetence by the Mahama-led administration, the 2016 Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo has said.
Nana Addo said the confusion on the proposed tax in government is a reflection of the “Mismanagement, corruption and incompetence prevailing in the NDC government.
“…When the word ‘incompetent’ is used to describe his government, the President gets very upset. But this week we have seen another example,” he added.
Nana Addo’s criticism comes after media reports which suggested that government was considering measures to begin taxing pensions of Ghanaians.
The information was attributed to the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper following an interview he granted on the sidelines of a business summit he attended in Accra.
Meanwhile government has discounted the reports.
But the biggest opposition leader Akufo-Addo interacting with NPP folks in Italy where he is visiting said Ghana needs a change in government insisting that the NDC government has run out of ideas to govern the nation.
“The Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, told us that he is preparing to tax pensions and allowances. And his President, two days later, stated that they were not going to do anything like that. If this is not confusion in his government, then I don’t know what it is; and if this is not a sign of incompetence, then you would have to tell me what incompetence means.
“President says one thing, the Finance a minister says another. So who is telling us the truth? Are we going with the Finance Minister or with the President? There is complete confusion in his government,”
“We have to change these statistics. We cannot continue, whilst other people are prospering, to go down the hill. We need to have a change in Ghana. John Mahama cannot help us.”
