The Ministry of Finance has raised a total of $1.13 billion through the issuance of 15 ad 17 year bonds at the same coupon of 19.75%. In addition, the Ministry raised the cedi equivalent of USD1.12...
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded South Africa's rating to junk status on Monday, as the country's currency continued to slide following a controversial cabinet shuffle. "The...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has re-emphasised that the 2017 budget will address the needs of the poor in society. He was speaking at the launch of the 2017 Ghana national convention of the Full...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investments Promotion Centre, Yofi Grant, has assured investors and the business community of government scrapping its new tax retention policy which request...
Parliament last Friday passed the Appropriation Bill, 2017, which has given the Minister of Finance the authority to withdraw money not exceeding GH¢64,116,793,031 from the Consolidated Fund and...
Mr Bice Osei-Kuffour aka Obour, President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), has revealed that the GH¢2 million the then National Democratic Congress government allocated to musicians has...
The Minister of Finance has set up a committee to address concerns associated with government’s new policy on placing a cap on the internally generated funds of some ministries, departments and...
A while ago, parliament passed the VAT amendment Bill into law subject to presidential assent. The budget, and the bill, which was prepared by the government and laid before parliament, seeks to...
The Ministry of Finance (MoFEP) has commended Dr. Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku for his stewardship of the Central Bank from April 2016 when he assumed office. A statement issued yesterday and signed by Ken...
Government has expressed its commitment to the implementation of Ghana’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure (BOD) project to help save the country from the scourge of widespread corruption and...
South African President Jacob Zuma has vowed to sack his respected finance minister, a government coalition party confirmed Thursday, in a move which could split the African National Congress (ANC)....
Vitus Azeem, former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), has explained that the maiden budget statement of the Akufo-Addo-led government was mute on the much touted Special...
There are fears that government’s decision to withdraw legitimately and lawfully granted tax exemptions from strategic investing companies in Ghana, could threaten the Government’s...
Minister for finance, Ken Ofori Atta is believed to have breached article 174(2) of the 1992 constitution, GIPC Act 2013 (865) as well as inter-country protocols on trade and investments through the...
The Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu is questioning why the Ministry of Finance is, on its own, writing to companies and revoking tax exemptions granted by Parliament. Iddrisu believes such an action...
The Attorney-General (A-G) and the Ministry of Finance have been sued by forty (40) Members of Parliament under the erstwhile Kufour administration over pensions owed them. The forty are demanding at...
The Minority Caucus in Parliament has warned that the robust Ghanaian economy built by the immediate past NDC government led by Mr. John Dramanai Mahama will soon melt down following the introduction...
Forty (40) former Members of Parliament, who served under the Kufuor Administration, have sued the Attorney-General and the Ministry of Finance over pensions owed them, demanding at least GHc 233,495...
Forty (40) former Members of Parliament, who served under the Kufuor Administration, have sued the Attorney-General and the Ministry of Finance over pensions owed them, demanding at least GHc...
The Minister designate for Public Procurement, Ms Sarah Adwoa Sarfo has explained that her role will in no way conflict with that of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA). There have been concerns...
