Exempting senior citizens from paying property rate commendable – ChaLoG
The Chamber for Local Governance (ChaLoG) has commended the former President John Dramani Mahama and National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, for including in its manifesto the exemption of pensioners and senior citizens from paying Property Rate Tax.
Mr Romeo Elikplim Akahoho, the Executive Secretary of ChaLoG, said “ChaLoG especially commends the NDC Flagbearer for what we consider to be a thoroughly thought through, forward looking and highly empathetic policy proposal meant to drastically reduce the financial burden on pensioners and senior citizens as they are no longer in active service.”
Mr Akahoho in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the policy proposal was timely and would be a perfect intervention to grant them some modicum of relief, in the face of the de...