{"id":45771,"date":"2025-07-31T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=45771"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:18:11","slug":"npp-alleges-ndc-government-has-introduced-eight-new-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/07\/31\/npp-alleges-ndc-government-has-introduced-eight-new-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP Alleges NDC Government Has Introduced Eight New Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a recent press briefing, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC)-led government of quietly rolling out eight new tax measures since taking office. The claim was formally made by Kojo\u202fOppong Nkrumah (MP for Ofoase\u2011Ayirebi), who warned Ghanaians of a rising tax burden under the current administration&nbsp; .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ud83e\uddfe The \u2018Eight New Taxes\u2019 Claim<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kojo Oppong Nkrumah highlighted that the Mahama administration has imposed \u201ceight new taxes so far,\u201d though he did not enumerate them in detail during the broadcast&nbsp; . A related video titled \u201cThis Mahama Administration Has Introduced Eight New Taxes\u201d provides confirmation of the allegation&nbsp; .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ud83d\udd0d What Are These Taxes?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other senior NPP figures, including Ambassador Charles Owiredu (MP for Abirem), have named several specific impositions, which may be part of the count:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A GH\u00a21 \u201cdumsor levy\u201d per litre of fuel (Energy Sector Levies Amendment Act, 2025) \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A 7% tax on plastic products<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A 15% VAT on non-life insurance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electricity tariff increases totaling about 2.45%, bringing total hikes to roughly 17.2%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Petrol and diesel price increases of 2% and 5% respectively \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s unclear whether all of these are included in the \u201ceight\u201d or if there are additional levies affecting sectors like mining, real estate, telecoms or financial services as hinted by broader commentary&nbsp; .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f NPP Response &amp; Political Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NPP has framed these developments as contrary to campaign promises made by the NDC, particularly pledges to repeal unpopular levies like the E\u2011levy and COVID\u201119 levy. Instead, they claim the government is shifting the fiscal burden onto citizens through other taxing mechanisms &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Analyst Insight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Several of the new taxes\u2014including the dumsor levy, plastic tax, insurance VAT, and electricity\/petrol adjustments\u2014are clearly identifiable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It remains uncertain whether all eight are legislative tax instruments or include indirect cost increases (e.g. tariff hikes).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fact\u2011checking bodies may yet crystallize a precise list as the NPP releases more documentation or parliamentary records emerge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent press briefing, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC)-led government of quietly rolling out eight new tax measures since taking office. The claim was formally made by Kojo\u202fOppong Nkrumah (MP for Ofoase\u2011Ayirebi), who warned Ghanaians of a rising tax burden under the current administration&nbsp; . \ud83e\uddfe The \u2018Eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[11261,10387,11555,6693,5222,913,10380,12866,4904,5800,5494,6569,12502,2264,12439,1557,11864,130,7795,278,281,2035,5146,12764,10381,8536,12103,12273,9031,1502,6206,8632,8033,594],"class_list":["post-45771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accused","tag-campaign","tag-citizens","tag-congress","tag-covid","tag-democratic","tag-diesel","tag-documentation","tag-dumsor","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-fuel","tag-ghanaians","tag-government","tag-instruments","tag-kojo-oppong-nkrumah","tag-kwadwo-oppong-nkrumah","tag-mahama","tag-mining","tag-mp","tag-ndc","tag-new-patriotic-party-npp","tag-nkrumah","tag-oppong-nkrumah","tag-petrol","tag-plastic","tag-price","tag-real-estate","tag-tariff","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-vat","tag-video","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45772,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45771\/revisions\/45772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}