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Former GFA Vice President Fred Pappoe backs calls for flat tax rate for sports goods
Former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association, Fred Pappoe, has endorsed calls for the government to implement a flat tax rate on imported sports goods.Many clubs have expressed frustration over the significant amounts they must pay to clear goods at the ports.GFA President Kurt Okraku highlighted this issue last week at the GFA’s Ordinary Congress.Pappoe supports the push for a flat tax rate, viewing it as a positive development.“I believe it's a good call to the minister. It's not the minister who will take that decision. He has to take it to cabinet, and then maybe they must take it up in Parliament,” Pappoe told journalists last week after GFA’s Ordinary Congress.“If they can come up with an exemption policy for some of their sporting items, especially when it can be proven that it's going to be used for the benefit of the clubs and then women's football, girls' football, and all the rest, it will be something in the right direction.”
Former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association, Fred Pappoe, has endorsed calls for the government to implement a flat tax rate on imported sports goods.
Many clubs have expressed frustration over the significant amounts they must pay to clear goods at the ports.
GFA President Kurt Okraku highlighted this issue last week at the GFA’s Ordinary Congress.
Pappoe supports the push for a flat tax rate, viewing it as a positive development.
“I believe it's a good call to the minister. It's not the minister who will take that decision. He has to take it to cabinet, and then maybe they must take it up in Parliament,” Pappoe told journalists last week after GFA’s Ordinary Congress.
“If they can come up with an exemption policy for some of their sporting items, especially when it can be proven that it's going to be used for the benefit of the clubs and then women's football, girls' football, and all the rest, it will be something in the right direction.”
