Member of Parliament for the Ada Constituency, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah has urged the government to remove all taxes on sanitary pads.
The government through Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta early announced the removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) on locally produced sanitary pads during the 2024 budget readings.
Removing VAT on locally produced sanitary pads is not enough hence the need for government to removes the taxes on all sanitary pads in the country to make them affordable for Ghanaian ladies.
“The local manufactures don’t have the capacity to produce sanitary pads on a large scale and all we are saying is that remove all taxes on sanitary pads. If you want any sample for local manufacturers use another company and not this one. We are pleading on the government to make sure that those in our rural areas get the pads for free like what Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang did during John Mahama’s time.”
“They should start now because these girls are suffering and what they need is for women to stand in for them so when my Minister stood up I thought she was going to support my calls for government to share free sanitary pads for our women in the rural areas,” Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah said on the floor of Parliament.
Deputy Finance Minister and MP for Atiwa East, Abena Osei Asare also added “All the raw materials that are imported to produce sanitary towels we will bring the revenue measure to Parliament to take out the import duty. The locally manufactured companies too government has taken off the VAT because these companies have to start somewhere because they can be able to produce on large scale.”
By: Joel Eshun/Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana