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Mid-year budget review: Phone users to pay more for call time and data

Abu Mubarik

Mobile Phone users are likely to pay more for call time and data in the mid-year budget review,the Minority spokesman on Finance has said.

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Ghana is among countries with expensive call time and internet, according to the World Bank.

In a post on Facebook, Cassiel Ato Forso claimed that barring any last minute changes, the finance minister will announce on Monday increases in taxes on fuel ( the energy sector levies ESLA) and call time including data( communication service tax).

According to him, "the increase in fuel tax will result in a hike in the pump prices of fuel products including LPG and have a cascading effect on price of transportation, prices of goods and services, general cost of living, and eventually on general hardships in the country."

He added: "Again you will need to cough-up more money to continue talking to friends and loved ones. As for data charges they will hit the roof!"

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He said Ghanaians should not expect any measures to alleviate the "hardships" in the country but rather brace-up for "untold hardships."

He vowed that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs will oppose "these unfair increases" while calling on Ghanaians to reject these "unfair, draconian increases in taxes."

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Abu Mubarik Abu Mubarik Abu Mubarik is a writer at Pulse Ghana with special interests in Ghana politics, international relations and geopolitics.

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