Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi and Ranking Member on the Economy and Development Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has called on the government to use the current suspension of the Energy Sector Levy as a critical opportunity to conduct a broader review of the country's fuel-related revenue policies.
Speaking on Citi Eyewitness News, Oppong Nkrumah welcomed the recent suspension but stressed that halting the levy temporarily was not enough. "What we are drawing attention to is not just the suspension of the levy, because that levy is unnecessary. "We are also drawing attention to the fact that the government should take advantage of this window, which has suspended [the levy] even while we are calling for scrapping," he said.
He emphasized the need for a long-term solution rather than a piecemeal approach. "Government should take advantage of this period not just to say we have halted it temporarily, but to do a substantive, comprehensive review of our revenue lines as a country, particularly the fuel levy," he added.
His remarks come in the wake of the Ghana Revenue Authority's (GRA) announcement that it has postponed the implementation of Tariff Interpretation Order (TIO) No. 2025/004, which relates to the Energy Sector Levies (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 1141).
