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Government Targets Overall Real GDP Growth of 6.3% In 2017

Government says it will shift the focus of economic management from taxation to production in the bid to restore and...

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Taxes On Airline Fares, Spare Parts Abolished

The Financed Minister Ken Ofori Atta has announced major tax cuts in government’s first budget presented to...

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Finance Minister Presents 2017 Budget Statement

Finance Minister Ken Ofori Attah is presenting the budget and economic planning statement for the year 2017 to the...

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GHC456m Budgeted For ‘1-District-1-Factory’ Project

The government has estimated Gh¢456.3 million to roll out its much talked about One-district-One-Factory policy, the...

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Ghc252m Earmarked To Restore Allowances of 120k Nurses, Teachers

The government has allocated Gh¢252.2 million in the 2017 Budget to take care of reinstituted allowances for teacher...

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Free SHS Policy Speech Writers Are ‘enemies’ of Akufo-Addo

The former Deputy Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Joseph Yamin has lashed out at...

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GHS400m For Free SHS – Government

Government has budgeted GHS400million to fund its Free Senior High School policy, which starts September this year,...

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‘Stimulus Package’ For One-District-One-Dam Will Create 350,000 Jobs

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta has said the much touted, election winning campaign policy- one district one...

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NDC MPs Flout Ban On Displaying of Placards In Parliament

The NDC Minority Members in Parliament on Thursday defied the directive by the leadership of the House against the...

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Government To Roll Out NPP Version of ‘operation Feed Yourself’

The last time Ken Ofori-Atta presented a budget it was perhaps before a small group of NPP bigwigs and he did so as...

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‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ To Create 750, 000 Jobs – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says government seeks to create about 750,000 direct and indirect jobs with the...

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Importers Excited Over Abolishment of 1% Import Duty Levy

Importers in Ghana have welcomed the abolishment of the 1% special import levy charged at the ports. The Finance...

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Spare Parts Importation; 17.5% VAT On Financial Services Etc

Government on Thursday made a loud statement in Parliament with the announcement of its decision to remove many...

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Government To Scrap Petrol Duty – Ofori-Atta

Government also intends to reduce the special petroleum tax rate from 17.5% to 15%.(file photo) Excise duty on...

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Accra Marine Drive Project To Start In 2017

Work on the Accra marine drive investment project will finally start in 2017. This forms part of the Akufo-Addo...

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We Can’t Borrow Our Way Out – Finance Minister

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has emphasized the need to “trigger” a national sense of urgency as an effective...

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Government Abolishes ‘Kayayei Tax’

Government has abolished the 1% market tolls which has existed for several years. The move is in fulfilment of...

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NPP To Revive ‘operation Feed Yourself’

Government will launch an agricultural campaign this year akin to Acheampong’s “operation feed yourself” to beef...

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2017 Budget Has Nothing New To Offer

Former Deputy Finance Minister Ato Forson has said that the 2017 budget statement and fiscal policy has nothing new to...