In the event that nuisance fees are not repealed, the Coalition of Transport Unions and Associations has threatened to raise transportation costs by 20% over the following 13 days.
Earlier, the Coalition of Transport Unions and Associations threatened to raise transportation costs by 20% if the government did not remove various levies related to the rise in fuel prices.
In an interview with Eyewitness News on Citi FM in Accra on Wednesday, David Agboado, the national public relations officer for the Concerned Drivers Association, reaffirmed the need for the government to abolish the energy sector levy, fuel marking margin, sanitation and pollution levy, as well as the special petroleum tax, to relieve the unnecessary burden on motorists and other consumers.
“These are the taxes that we want the government to scrap from the price build-up because they are outlived. For example, with the energy sector levy, we were told that in June 2021, they had cleared all the debts in the energy sector. Fuel marking was used when the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) was operational. Now TOR is not operational, so the fuel marking margin is not operational. And then we have the special petroleum tax. We don’t have anything special about our fuel being made because we all bring in the end product. So that is why we are demanding that these taxes should be scrapped,” he added.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
