Day 601: 5 Minute Freewrite - Prompt: tax

https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/Qmeq2vK1ysSNjM6EvF3odukYwfxifDP18ysyX6XsjVo4Kp African leaders love tax more than anyone else in the world. t you don't know what they do with it. A lot of people and organisations in Ghana don't pay taxes and instead of making them pay, they increase the taxes of those already paying to make life even harder for them. How is that fair? Come to Ghana where foreigners are allowed some years to work without paying taxes so as to increase foreign investments and the local Ghanaian can't start a business. Why? Because the business is made to pay lots of money as taxes even though it's just a startup. Just registering your business alone is enough to cripple your business. The system is such a way that, a lot of start-ups have decided not to register or pay taxes until they are well into the market and are making some money. Is that the best? No! I met a couple of guys who had started a business but couldn't register because the money being demanded was huge. They decided to meet some investors to negotiate and before they new it, their idea was being implemented by the investors. You can't take them to court as you've not really registered your company. After all the taxes, still development doesn't go on in most African countries. Nothing changes in Ghana when new tax rules or laws are made, but the politicians always say the changes are supposed to bring in more taxes and as such, more development. It's a pity.