Fuel Prices Expected To Fall By 3%
Fuel prices is expected to fall by about 3% later this month. This is according to the Institute for Energy Security (IES). The IES projections comes at the back of drop of Brent crude, gasoline and...
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Petrol Prices To Go Down Thursday Amid Calls For Increment In Transport Fares
Retail prices of petroleum products will from Thursday drop by a marginal three per cent at the various pumps across the country, and has been predicted to further go down in April this year, 3News...
Fuel Prices To Fall By 3%
Fuel prices will fall by three per cent later in the month on the back of the drop of Brent crude, gasoline and gasoil prices on the world market, the Institute for Energy Security (IES) has...
Togo Fuel Price Hikes Hit Household Budgets
Emmanuel Sogadji has a message for the government in Togo from people who are being squeezed by fuel price rises: "Enough is enough!" The consumer group he heads has given the administration two...
Drivers, Passengers Fight Over Transport Fares
Commercial drivers in the capital city are in arms with passengers over unapproved fares following the increases in the prices of petroleum products, Today can report Although there has not been an...
Ghana Will Be Like Malaysia By September
Founder and Leader of House of Ezrah Ministries has said Ghana will be transformed to match the glories of Malaysia. According to Prophet Kofi Amponsah, President Akufo-Addo’s programs and policies...
GPRTU Denies 15% Transport Fare Hikes
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has dismissed claims by a section of the public that transport fares have been increased by 15 per cent. Robert Sarbah, Deputy National Chairman of the...
Fuel Price Hikes Must Stop – COPECGH
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPECGH) has charged relevant authorities in the country to ensure that unreasonable fuel price increments are curtailed. According to a press release signed and...
Enforcement of Tax Laws Needed – Lecturer
The government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must ensure that tax laws are enforced strictly in Ghana to raise more revenue to implement its programmes and policies, Dr John Gatsi, an economist and...
Tackle Fundamental Issues – Jantuah Tells Government
Although it is good that some taxes, including the 1% special import levy, have been scrapped, the government should tackle the underlying problems confronting small-scale businesses, Kwame Jantuah,...
2017 Budget Unrealistic – Ricketts-Hagan
The Akufo-Addo government's 2017 budget statement does not reflect reality and will lead to the biggest financial deficit in the history of Ghana, Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, a former Deputy Minister of...
GREDA Grateful For Tax Cut
The abolition of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on real estate sales by the Akufo-Addo government is good a decision that will increase the purchasing power of Ghanaians, Samuel Amegayibor, Executive...
Electricity VAT Must Go
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...
We’ll Pass RTI Bill – Ofori-Atta
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....
Import Levy Killed Us
The introduction of the import levy on secondhand spare parts by the previous government drove away customers from all over West Africa who were travelling to Abossey Okai in Accra to conduct...
Financial Analyst
The decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap some taxes and reduce some is apt, Bernard Owusu-Mensah, a Financial Analyst, has said. According to him, some of these taxes should have been...
Budget Has Frightened NDC
Minority Members in Parliament have been hit with excessive fear following the bold decisions that have been taken by the Akufo-Addo-led government in the maiden budget statement, Dr Anthony...
‘Kaya Tax’ Nonexistent
The decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap market tolls imposed on itinerant head porters (Kayayei), as announced by Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta in the government’s first budget...
Importers Laud President Akufo-Addo
Importers in Ghana have welcomed the decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap the 1% special import levy as a way of growing businesses in Ghana. During the reading of the budget statement,...
‘Kaya Tax’ Does Not Exist
The decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap market tolls imposed on itinerant head porters (Kayayei) as announced by Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta in the government’s first budget...