Serena Serves Ace For Black Women’s Equal Pay
Serena Williams served up a rallying cry for equal pay for black women Monday, decrying that they would have to ...
Tag: 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 stability to strengthen ...
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 domestic market, ...
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 the award of ...
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 announced by Minister ...
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 ...
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 Parliament today, Thursday ...
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 ...
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 petroleum products ...
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 measure to ...
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 dwindling fortunes, ...
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 presents its maiden ...
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 financial observers are ...
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 not ...
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 recorded revenue shortfalls ...
Help Me Succeed – New GRA Boss
Newly appointed Commissioner of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Kofi Nti, has asked staff members of the Authority to support ...
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 ...
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 boss, Mr ...
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 December 31, 2016, following ...