When the tax is reinstated in 2023, according to Kwesi Amoako-Atta, Minister of Roads and Highways, no longer will road tolls be collected by people.
Mr. Amoako-Atta claims that electronic methods will be used to pay for road tolls.
“We’re going to construct a contemporary expressway with tolling infrastructure, but it will be an electronic tolling infrastructure…
“It will be done electronically if it has to arrive,” he stated.
He pleaded with motorists to be ready to pay a higher toll so that the government could build more effective roads.
“Throughout the entire year, we received an average of GH78 million, but depending on the state of the ground, that kind of money cannot even be used to construct 10 kilometers of road. The toll we were paying was the lowest in the entire planet. We want fantastic and good highways in our nation, meanwhile.
“If we want wonderful things, we have to be willing to pay more. We won’t be paying the 50 pesewas and one anymore.
The government stated in November 2021 that it would stop collecting tolls on all major national roadways.
One year later, the administration has reversed course to resume toll collecting.
One of the revenue-generating proposals in the 2023 budget that Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta proposed to Parliament was the reinstatement of the road toll.
The reintroduction of tolls on some public roads and highways with a renewed focus on leveraging technology in the collection to address the inefficiencies characterized by the prior toll collection regime is one of the fiscal policy measures to support the 2023 Budget for consideration and approval by Parliament, according to paragraph 462 of the budget statement.
In the meantime, the minority in the parliament has said that they will only provide their full support if the money obtained from the toll collection is used purely for road repair.
