Kwadwo Sheldon Speaks Against Taxing Content Creators

Kwadwo Sheldon, one of Ghana’s top YouTube content creators, has spoken against the Ghana’s government’s plans of taxing content creators who receive income from foreign companies like YouTube and Google.

Ghana has been in the news in the past few months about the rampant taxation by the current government and this has led to several uproars amongst Ghanaians.

The Ghana Revenue Authority announced their plans to open their tax new and tax Ghanaian content creators who receive income from foreign platforms.

Kwadwo Sheldon, on an interview with BBC Africa, disclosed that the Ghana government’s decision is not favorable to them as the content creators do not earn that much that should warrant a deduction in a form of a tax.

Sheldon stated: “For me, it is unfavourable to us…We are building, it’s not buoyant yet. So if you keep taxing us, how much are we going to earn at the end of the day? Now, even before the YouTube money comes in, they will take their own. At the end of the day, let’s say you earn $1,000 a month, you will be walking home with $500.”