{"id":33369,"date":"2021-11-21T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T07:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=33369"},"modified":"2021-11-21T07:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T07:47:04","slug":"momo-merchants-fear-job-collapse-over-e-levy-as-momo-users-threaten-to-revert-to-bank-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=33369","title":{"rendered":"MoMo Merchants Fear Job Collapse Over E-Levy As MoMo Users Threaten To Revert To Bank Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Following the government\u2019s introduction of 1.75% E-levy in the 2022 budget, some users of the mobile money platform in the Bolgatanga Municipality have threatened to stop using the electronic transaction service as they say the E-levy will be a financial burden.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to a customer quizzed \u201cnow that they are putting more tax on it, it is better we go back to our banks than to be doing mobile money. If you are putting money in the bank and they are deducting and you come to mobile money and they\u2019re even putting more charges on it. Is it not better going back to the bank?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will be better to have my money than send through mobile money and be taxed, I\u2019ll rather have it and if the thieves steal it, that\u2019s fine, it is better\u201d another customer added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, merchants of electronic transaction services in the Bolgatanga Municipality have kicked against the tax policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The merchants say it is a deliberate attempt to kill their business and also render them jobless. They have made a passionate appeal for government to reconsider its decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A vendor, who gave his name as Zechariah explained that \u201cbecause of the charges on the mobile money, I don\u2019t think we can continue the work, the charges are plenty. Because of the charges, I don\u2019t think the customers will come for transactions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf there is a way out, I think the government should work it out if not all of us will become jobless because mobile money is our only source of livelihood\u201d another vendor retorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, John Amoah a vendor, alleged that the government is deliberately trying to collapse the Mobile Money Services as it collapsed the Banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Send your news stories to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dannyboy744@gmail.com\">dannyboy744@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and via WhatsApp on +233 266777777<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the government\u2019s introduction of 1.75% E-levy in the 2022 budget, some users of the mobile money platform in the Bolgatanga Municipality have threatened to stop using the electronic transaction service as they say the E-levy will be a financial burden. 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