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AGI Disappointed In Government For Not Reducing Electricity Tariff
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is not happy that the government’s 2017 budget was silent on realistic measures to ...
Tetteh Chaie Lauds Government For Abolishing Tax On Spare Parts
Former NDC MP for Ablekuma Central had lauded government on its plans to remove import duties on automobile spare parts ...
Youth and Sports Ministry Receives 46 Million Cedis
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has been allocated about GHS 46 million for its activities for the 2017 year. ...
Ghana To Be Dumping Ground For Over-Aged Spare Parts – Ato Forson
Former Deputy Finance Minister Ato Forson has condemned the abolishment of import duties on spare parts, claiming the move will ...
Gov’t Allocates Ghc456m For ‘1-District-1-Factory’ Project
The government has budgeted GH¢456.3 million to be used to implement its flagship one-district one-factory policy programme. This was contained ...
2017 Budget Statement In Snapshots
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has presented the 2017 budget statement in Parliament. He said, among other things in his address ...
2017 Budget Bereft of Specificity – Minority
The maiden budget statement of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government delivered Thursday by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is misleading and bereft of ...
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 ...
Abossey-Okai Spare Parts Dealers Jubilate Over Tax Cut
Spare parts dealers at Abossey-Okai in Accra, have lauded government for the decision to scrap taxes on the importation of ...
2017 Budget Bereft of Specificity – Minority
The maiden budget statement of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government delivered Thursday by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is misleading and bereft of ...
Public Workers Without Biometric SSNIT ID To Be Removed From Payroll
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta says public sector workers who are not biometrically registered on the Social Security and National Insurance ...
Abossey-Okai Spare Parts Dealers Jubilate Over Tax Cut [Video]
Spare parts dealers at Abossey-Okai in Accra, have lauded government for the decision to scrap taxes on the importation of ...
Biblical Ofori-Atta Tags ‘5-Loaves-2-Fishes’ Budget ‘As?mpa Budget’
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta was on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, March 2 to deliver the 2017 budget statement ...
Gov’t To Review ‘basic Education’ To Include Senior High Schools
President Akufo-Addo’s government says it will review the concept of basic education to include Secondary Education which would cover technical, ...
Economy Projected To Grow By 6.3% In 2017
Government has projected a real GDP growth of 6.3 percent; with oil for the year 2017, while non-oil real GDP ...
Government Will Give Efua Sutherland Park Face Lift
The finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has assured that the government in partnership with the private sector will develop the ...
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 by the ...
Akufo-Addo Has Not Reduced Anything Yet
The Minority in Parliament have asked government to provide definite answers on when the tax reliefs announced in the 2017 ...
2017 Budget: MPs Fly Placards Despite Ban By Leadership
Members of Parliament on Thursday, March 2, breached their own regulations over the use of placards in the House. The ...