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Government Embarks On Five-Day Non-Deal Roadshow To Japan

Government’s resolve to make Ghana the financial hub in the sub-region and to diversify the sources of funds for...

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IMF Tells Ghana To Adopt New Revenue Plan Before April Review

Ghana must legislate new measures to boost revenues by at least 0.5 percent of gross domestic product before the IMF...

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GUTA Angry Over ‘scandalous’ Fumigation Levy

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is fuming with rage as government implements the Fumigation Levy on...

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GRA Moves To Arrest Declining Excise Tax Revenue

Authorities at the Ghana Revenue Authority have resolved to enforce the Excise Tax Stamp in order to increase...

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Prosecute Tax Stamp Defaulters – Expert Tells Government

A tax expert, Dr  Ibrahim Bedi, has advised government to prosecute owners of businesses who will default in paying...

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Gov’t Begins Process To Engage Trained Nurses

Government has started the process to secure financial clearance to engage publicly trained nurses who ended their...

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Energy Expert Claims

Ghana is a broke country, but the government has failed to disclose to Ghanaians, the true state of the finances,...

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Ofori-Atta Leads Gov’t Delegation On Non-Deal Roadshow To Asia

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is leading a government delegation on a study tour of the financial sector of Hong Kong...

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Auditor-General 2016 Report

The Auditor-General’s 2016 report audited some payment claims and found a good number of them to be repeat demands...

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Gov’t Moves To Scrap Import Duties On Aircraft Spare Parts

The Aviation Ministry has begun talks with the Finance Ministry to scrap taxes on import duty on aircraft parts and...

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Auditor-General Wants Power To Prosecute As He Rejects Payment of Over GHc5.4b

The Audit Service has rejected a total of GH¢5.479 billion out of the liabilities of GH¢11.279 billion submitted by...

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Health Minister ‘frustrated’ By Alarming Picketing

Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu has suggested he is overwhelmed by the rate of picketing, which has become the...

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Gov’t To Employ 400 People As Forest Guards

The Forestry Commission (FC) is to employ 400 people to serve as forest guards to protect the country’s forest...

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Controversial $72m SSNIT Software Working Despite Earlier Claim

The controversial $72 million software procured by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is...

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KATH Hit By Acute Shortage of Doctors, New Emergency Admissions Suspended

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has been hit by acute shortage of medical doctors, forcing the...

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Final Verdict On Controversial Mandatory Towing Fee

The national towing project which has over the years recorded repeated failures has once again failed owing to the...

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Picketing Escalates To Cooking And Sleeping At Health Ministry

The Coalition for Unemployed Private Nurses Association has been on a picketing spree for the past few days, over...

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No Request For Supplementary Budget In Midyear Review

The Finance Ministry has stated it will not seek a supplementary budget even as it presents a midyear budget review to...

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EC Boss Grilled Over Media Cash

Electoral Commission Chairperson says monies the commission took from journalists for accreditation during last...