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Former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association, Fred Pappoe, has backed calls for the government to implement a flat tax rate on imported sports goods.
Many clubs have expressed frustration over the substantial amounts they must pay to clear goods at the ports.
GFA President Kurt Okraku reiterated this concern last week at the FA’s Ordinary Congress and called on Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif to look into it.
Pappoe believes that the call for a flat tax rate is a step in the right direction.
“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 Joy Sports.
“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.”
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