The Committee made the call during an inspection tour to Appointed Time Printing Limited in Accra.
Appointed Time Printing is one of the printing firms designated by the government to print science textbooks of the new curriculum for basic schools.
In his address, Mr Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, the Chairman of the committee, said the rebates would go a long way to enable local printing firms compete with the international market.
He said: “The printing houses are doing well. They were given the order to print textbooks on the 1st of June and they were mandated to finish on the 27th of August.”
“But it looks like all of them will finish before the 27th of August. My appeal to the government is to consider giving them some form of tax rebate if it is educational,” he said.
According to Mr Amankwa Asiamah, in terms of importation of the firms’ raw material, it made their books a little bit costly and more expensive than those that come from China and India because they did not pay anything at all when they brought in their finished product.
On his part, Mr Clement Apaak, Deputy Ranking Member of the committee, charged the printing firms to deliver the textbooks for the basic schools on time.