The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has presented four Bills to parliament in relation to the proposed tax cuts in the 2017 budget. The bills are Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, Special Petroleum...
Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Finance, has announced that government will add a total of 1,227MW of installed power capacity to the national grid to meet the growing demand for electricity. This would...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is perhaps considered as the party with the most experienced human resources in terms of key government positions in Ghana. Although this maybe debatable, the ongoing...
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is prepared to merge with other political forces to establish a strong and viable alternative political movement in Ghana to break the duo politics of the New...
President Akufo-Addo has inaugurated an 11-member governing board for the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA). The new board is to oversee the successful implementation of the Energy Compact,...
The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta is optimistic that the measures outlined in the budget would help ensure efficiency in revenue collection and offset any shortfalls because of tax reliefs....
Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Ken Ofori-Atta has indicated that tax leakages, which have bedevilled the country’s economy, will be substantially plugged. “We are going to be very...
President Akufo-Addo’s key policy initiatives which includes the much touted one-district one-factory, one-village one-dam, free Senior High School (SHS) among others, will cost the country over...
President Akufo-Addo’s key policy initiatives which includes the much touted one-district one-factory, one-village one-dam, free Senior High School (SHS) among others, will cost the country over...
Accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has described the 2017 budget of President Akufo-Addo as a business-friendly document. According to PwC, the current budget which was described by the...
All public sector workers who have not been biometrically registered with Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) will be removed from government payroll next month. Kenneth Ofori-Atta,...
President Akufo-Addo’s key policy initiatives which includes the much touted one-district one-factory, one-village one-dam, free Senior High School (SHS) among others, will cost the country over...
The Majority and Minority Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday slugged it out as they began a debate on the Budget Statement and Economic Policy for the 2017 financial year. The contention was more...
Businesses in the country are calling on the government to focus attention on stabilising the cedi to complement recent interventions in the 2017 budget and create the enabling environment for...
Ghana has for the first time since 2011 recorded a balance of payment (BoP) surplus of $247 million, compared to a deficit of $129 million in 2015, the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta has...
Taxes that were abolished as announced by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta in his 2017 budget presentation before parliament are woefully inadequate to positively impact on private business...
The government’s budget for free senior high school (SHS) education in the 2017/2018 academic year is inadequate to even cater for a term’s expenditure, the Ghana National Education Campaign...
The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori Atta has denied two facebook accounts bearing his image purported to belong to him. He indicates that ” the creators of these accounts are masquerading as the...
The Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid, has stated that the reduction and abolition of some taxes will not have any adverse effect on government revenue. According to him, it will instead...
The Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid, has stated that the reduction and abolition of some taxes will not have any adverse effect on government revenue. According to him, it will instead...
