The immediate past Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has said the decision to remove taxes on the importation of vehicle spare parts will make the country a dumping ground for over aged vehicles....
The former Deputy Finance Minister Mona Helen Kabuki Quartey has stated that the 2017 budget read by the Finance minister Ken Ofori Atta is not deceptive contradicting her colleague Cassiel Ato Baah...
Spare parts dealers at Abossey Okai in Accra have pledged to reduce the prices of their goods owing to the removal of taxes on the importation of automobile spare parts into Ghana. Minister of...
A legal practitioner has suggested that government's attempt to elevate the sanctions for corruption from misdemeanor to felony is unnecessary. Samson Lardy Anyenini is convinced the law which...
The interruption of the presentation of the president or his ministers on the floor of parliament by the Minority is part of the parliamentary culture in democratic dispensations, Osei Kwadwo, a...
Seth Terkper, the finance minister under the erstwhile John Mahama-led administration doesn't agree with scraping taxes as outlined in the 2017 budget. Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, while...
The sports industry received a shot in the arm yesterday when the government voted GH¢45.8 million as budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the 2017 fiscal year, as was...
Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has said the imposition of a tax on itinerant head porters (kayayei) was an act of inhumanity. According to him,...
The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) has described the maiden fiscal policy document presented by the finance minister to Parliament yesterday as encouraging. According to a policy...
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said that the policies outlined in the maiden Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Akufo-Addo government will help fix the economy and change the...
Staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have re-echoed their opposition to the privatisation of the company. Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, announced Thursday that the Ghana Compact II...
Controversial hiplife artiste, A Plus, has described Ghanaian parliamentarians as the most indiscipline group in the country. MPs on the minority side who could not hold themselves to the commitment...
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has called on government to ensure the implementation of incentives promised the business community. Speaking to Starr Business after the presentation of the...
Although the government of Ghana has scrapped some taxes and reduced others as a way of bringing down the cost of doing business, it is quite surprising that there was not a mention of the removal of...
Former Deputy Finance minister Mona Quartey has predicted the Akufo-Addo government will backtrack on its economic expectations when it realises that its 2017 budget presented last Thursday is not...
Former Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has described as discriminatory, the scrapping of tolls paid by head potters also known as “Kayayei” at market places. According to him, the move is not...
A large section of Ghanaians have expressed so much satisfaction over NPP’s abolished taxes, especially on some aspects of trade and commerce. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has finally...
Former Ghana deputy sports minister Joseph Yamin claims an over 200% budget increment for sports is woefully inadequate, a year after his government slashed funding dramatically. The claim has...
Jaw-dropping tax incentives and reliefs announced by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in the 2017 ‘Asempa’ budget statement yesterday which clearly defined policies to resuscitate the ailing...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will pass the Right to Information (RTI) bill as a way of dealing with corruption in the public sector....
