Public economics
Fiscal Stability Council In the Offing
Government is planning to establish what it terms Fiscal Stability and Financial Stability Council to enhance macro...
Domestic Borrowing Won’t Crowd Out Private Sector–Finance Ministry
Chief Director at the Ministry of Finance, Patrick Nomo, has indicated that government will source funds from the...
Public Procurement Authority To Begin E-Procurement In June
The Public Procurement Authority (PPA) is expected to begin the implementation of an electronic monitoring process in...
2017 Budget Brings Huge Relief To Spare Parts Dealers, Kayayei
AUTO (spare) parts dealers across the country will soon heave a sigh of relief after the announcement by the Minister...
‘Kaya Tax’ Nonexistent
The decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap market tolls imposed on itinerant head porters (Kayayei), as...
Abolishing Spare Parts Tax Will Encourage Smuggling – Seth Terkper
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper is warning of dire repercussions on Ghana’s economy given the reduction of...
Taxes On Airline Fares, Spare Parts Abolished
The Financed Minister Ken Ofori Atta has announced major tax cuts in government’s first budget presented to...
Government To Roll Out NPP Version of ‘operation Feed Yourself’
The last time Ken Ofori-Atta presented a budget it was perhaps before a small group of NPP bigwigs and he did so as...
Government To Scrap Petrol Duty – Ofori-Atta
Government also intends to reduce the special petroleum tax rate from 17.5% to 15%.(file photo) Excise duty on...
We Can’t Borrow Our Way Out
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has emphasized the need to “trigger” a national sense of urgency as an effective...
We’ll Restore Fiscal Discipline – Ofori-Atta
The government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo will restore fiscal discipline in the Ghanaian economy and reverse its...
High Expectations As New NPP Government Presents Maiden Budget
There are high expectations among the citizenry as the barely two-month old New Patriotic Party (NPP) government...
Nana Addo’s Maiden Budget Will Focus On Restructuring
As the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta prepares to present government’s budget before parliament this week, some...
SONA 2017: Ghana Won’t Collapse Under Me – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday painted a gloomy picture of the state of the Ghanaian economy, pledging that he will...
GRA Experienced Revenue Shortfalls In Dollars Since 2012 – New Boss
New Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has revealed that the authority...
Help Me Succeed – New GRA Boss
Newly appointed Commissioner of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Kofi Nti, has asked staff members of the Authority...
Government Tinkers With Tax Cuts
The Economic Management Team of government is pondering which taxes to abolish and the ones to increase, as it looks to...
Kofi Nti Takes Over As New Commissioner-General of GRA
Outgoing Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr George Blankson, has handed over to a new GRA...
GRA Task Force Recovered GHS183.5m In 2016
THE Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) mobilised tax revenues amounting to GHS183,559,837.70 between January 1, 2016, and...