Ghanaians on social media have expressed excitement over the impending scrapping of several nuisance taxes introduced by the erstwhile NPP government in the 2025 budget reading.
Finance Minister and Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency, Cassiel Ato Forson, is set to present the first budget of the new NDC government in Parliament on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
As part of the budget, the new National Democratic Congress (NDC) government is expected to abolish the e-levy, betting tax, covid-19 tax and other similar unpopular taxes that the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration forced on Ghanaians.
The NDC campaigned on abolishing all of these taxes and reports indicate the budget is going to do just that.
Reacting to news of the budget abolishing these regressive taxes, social media users have expressed excitement.
One netizen went so far as to predict that such a move would keep the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) out of power for the next 70 years.
“If NDC is able to scrap the Betting Tax, E-levy, COVID-19 and the soft loan tax, it’ll take NPP seventy years to come to power,” the netizen wrote.
Ahead of the budget presentation, the Finance Minister has been engaging young Ghanaians on social media about their expectations for the budget.
High on the list of issues mentioned were the scrapping of e-levy and betting tax, which was a huge motivating factor in the youth delivering the NDC a resounding victory in 2024.