The domestic aviation industry has welcomed the removal of the 17.5% tax on domestic airline tickets. Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Africa World Airlines (AWA), Captain Samuel Thompson, said the...
Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has lashed out at the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration describing them as bad ‘political chefs’ who didn’t know...
A former Deputy Finance Minister under the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, Fifi Kwetey has asked Ghanaians especially dealers in spare parts not to jubilate over...
The Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA) has welcomed government’s decision to scrap the 5% VAT on cost of real estate. Presenting the budget in parliament yesterday, Finance Minister,...
The introduction of the import levy on secondhand spare parts by the previous government drove away customers from all over West Africa who were travelling to Abossey Okai in Accra to conduct...
AUTO (spare) parts dealers across the country will soon heave a sigh of relief after the announcement by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, of government’s decision to abolish import duties...
The decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap some taxes and reduce some is apt, Bernard Owusu-Mensah, a Financial Analyst, has said. According to him, some of these taxes should have been...
Minority Members in Parliament have been hit with excessive fear following the bold decisions that have been taken by the Akufo-Addo-led government in the maiden budget statement, Dr Anthony...
The general feeling is that the Minister passed his first test given the replication of major campaign promises in the budget. The structure of the budget itself didn’t change much from the...
Yesterday, Ghana’s Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori- Atta presented his maiden budget to Parliament. The minister christened his budget ‘’ Asempa Budget’’ in the Twi language, loosely...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said as part of the government’s commitment to fighting corruption, the criminal code will be amended to move corruption offenses from a misdemeanor to a...
The decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap market tolls imposed on itinerant head porters (Kayayei), as announced by Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta in the government’s first budget...
MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE FOR 2016 Overall real GDP 3.6% End-period inflation 15.4% Overall budget deficit on cash basis – 8.7% of GDP, on commitment basis, 10.3% Gross Foreign Reserve (Import...
A former Deputy Finance Minister has cautioned Ghanaians to brace up for difficult times because of challenges he envisages government's decision to scrap some taxes might pose for the economy....
The head of the Economics Department of the University of Ghana has described as juicy the stimulus package announced by the Finance Minister in the 2017 Budget statement. Peter Quartey told Joy News...
Spare parts dealers in the capital, Accra are set to stage a massive demonstration over the abolishing of tax on the importation of spare parts into the country. The demonstration would involve...
The maiden budget statement of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government delivered Thursday by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is misleading and bereft of specificity, members of the minority in parliament...
Importers in Ghana have welcomed the decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap the 1% special import levy as a way of growing businesses in Ghana. During the reading of the budget statement,...
Spare parts dealers at Abossey-Okai in Accra, have lauded government for the decision to scrap taxes on the importation of vehicle parts. The traders said the move relieves them of a huge burden that...
The maiden budget statement of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government delivered Thursday by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is misleading and bereft of specificity, members of the minority in parliament...
