A section of female shop attendants within the Kumasi Central Business Area have urged government to strategize measures that would help reduce taxes to ensure that shop owners remain in businesses.
Speaking to the correspondent in an interview, some of the female shop attendants said the effects on hikes in prices of goods due to high inflation coupled with Vat payments are indeed affecting them too.
According to them their shop owners are not making profits hence their inability to pay them well.
Narrating their experiences they disclosed that though the shop that were closed down recently due to alleged huge tax demands have been opened.
Their shop owners will still find it hard to pay them because customers hardly patronize the shops as a result of economic hardship.
Workers of the various shops in Adum Kumasi are really suffering from hunger, the female shop attendants asserted.
Stressing that their survival would be at stake if taxes are not reduced because shop owners can dismiss them at any time if they realized that they are not making profits.
The shop attendants related that the shop owners in Kumasi never shut down their shops deliberately but the truth was that people less patronize their shops.
And moreover they scared by the alleged huge demands from the Ghana Revenue Authority.
Therefore government have to find ways to bail the shop owners out from their challenges.
Especially on the areas of taxations.
On the occasion the female shop attendants who cannot hide their feelings pleaded with the government and Ghana Revenue Authority to empathize with the shop owners.
And consider their plights and do something about it before their shops would be eventually closed down to the disadvantage of the female shop attendants.
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