The Deputy Minister for Information, Fatimatu Abubakar, has charged state agencies to partner the Information Services Department (ISD) and give the latter more opportunities to serve especially on public awareness campaigns.
“The ISD has the capacity to get the messages to the ground convincingly through its numerous campaigns. It is the reason why we need to give them more,” she said.
The Deputy Minister was addressing a program to sensitise ISD staff on the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy) in Kumasi on Monday, 16th May, 2022.
The program is aimed at empowering the ISD officers to embark on public education campaigns to sensitise Ghanaians on the importance of the levy.
Madame Fatimatu Abubakar said just as the department has done well with other sensitisation campaigns, government expects that it will devote much attention and resources to the E-levy campaign and help get the message down to the citizens in rural communities.
“Our expectation is that after this exercise, many Ghanaians will understand the essence of contributing to the E-levy and as such revenue mobilisation for developments to benefit all,” she added.
She, however, advised the officers to make good use of the opportunity and not disappoint the Ministry of Information and government.
The exercise was organised by the Ghana Revenue Authority in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance.
Deputy Minister of Finance and MP for Atiwa East, Abena Osei Asare, on her part stressed the importance of the E-levy, adding that government is hoping to use the levy to boost revenue generation for developments.
“It will help us broaden the tax base to include a large portion of the population who are eligible to pay taxes,” she said.
The Acting Director of the ISD, David Owusu Amoah, charged his officers to take this task as a test case to deliver and get the message to the people in the appropriate language.
