Minister of Finance
S&P Cuts South Africa’s Credit Rating To ‘junk’
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded South Africa's rating to junk status on Monday, as the country's...
Finance Minister Coaxes Businesses To Create More Jobs
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has re-emphasised that the 2017 budget will address the needs of the poor in society....
Government To Scrap Tax Retention Policy – Yofi Grant
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investments Promotion Centre, Yofi Grant, has assured investors and the...
Finance Ministry To Run Economy With GHc64.116 Bn
Parliament last Friday passed the Appropriation Bill, 2017, which has given the Minister of Finance the authority to...
Gov’t GHc2m Support To MUSIGA Was ‘a Curse’
Mr Bice Osei-Kuffour aka Obour, President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), has revealed that the GH¢2 million...
Finance Ministry Sets Up Committee To Monitor Cuts On IGF
The Minister of Finance has set up a committee to address concerns associated with government’s new policy on placing...
New VAT Regime Arbitrary, Unfair
A while ago, parliament passed the VAT amendment Bill into law subject to presidential assent. The budget, and the...
Gov’t Commends Dr. Nasir Issahaku
The Ministry of Finance (MoFEP) has commended Dr. Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku for his stewardship of the Central Bank from...
Gov’t Intensifies War On Corruption and Money-Laundering
Government has expressed its commitment to the implementation of Ghana’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure (BOD)...
S.Africa’s Zuma Plans To Sack Finance Minister
South African President Jacob Zuma has vowed to sack his respected finance minister, a government coalition party...
Government Will Finance Office of Special Prosecutor – Vitus Azeem
Vitus Azeem, former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), has explained that the maiden budget...
1-District, 1 Factory Under Threat By Withdrawal of Tax Exemptions?
There are fears that government’s decision to withdraw legitimately and lawfully granted tax exemptions from...
Finance Minister Indirectly Shoots Down One-District, One-Factory Policy?
Minister for finance, Ken Ofori Atta is believed to have breached article 174(2) of the 1992 constitution, GIPC Act...
Minority Leader Jabs Kweku Kwarteng Over Tax Exemptions
The Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu is questioning why the Ministry of Finance is, on its own, writing to companies and...
40 Former MPs Sue Attorney General, Finance Ministry Over Pension Pay
The Attorney-General (A-G) and the Ministry of Finance have been sued by forty (40) Members of Parliament under the...
Akufo-Addo Will Destroy Mahama’s Ghana – NDC MPs Warn
The Minority Caucus in Parliament has warned that the robust Ghanaian economy built by the immediate past NDC...
40 Former MPs Sue For Nearly GHC10m Pension Cash
Forty (40) former Members of Parliament, who served under the Kufuor Administration, have sued the Attorney-General and...
40 Ex MPs Sue For Nearly Ghc10m Pension Cash
Forty (40) former Members of Parliament, who served under the Kufuor Administration, have sued the Attorney-General...
My Role Will Not Conflict With That of PPA
The Minister designate for Public Procurement, Ms Sarah Adwoa Sarfo has explained that her role will in no way conflict...