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This was revealed by the Acting Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah. According to him, the authority was initially budgeted to collect tax revenue of GH¢47,253.95 billion for the 2020 fiscal year. This represented a 7.6% growth over the actual tax revenue collections of GH¢43,907.12 billion for the 2019 fiscal year. However, as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the budget was revised to GH¢42,769.50 billion. This represents 2.6% negative growth over the actual revenue collection of GH¢43,907.12 billion for 2019. However, s...

Graphic Online BY: Maclean Kwofi 30.5k Shares 705 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country have been asked to team-up to undertake big ticket transactions that can profit Africa’s over 1.2 billion consumers. That will help position the country’s Small and Medium Enterprises to take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) which become operational in January 2020. The event The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Mr Seth Twum-Akwaboah, made the call at the opening of a three-day trade fair at the forecourt of the ...

Government agenda remains job creation, prosperity for all – Deputy Minister Gifty Eugenia Kusi, Deputy Western Regional Minister, says the agenda of Government remains a “Ghana Beyond Aid,” job creation and prosperity for all. She has, therefore, urged all heads of departments and other public sector institutions to share in that vision by deploying all expertise and competencies to actualize it. She also tasked the heads to consider the need to deepen their existing collaboration with other institutions and the private sector as crucial instrument for speedy growth and development. Mr...

Ghana’s election was largely a referendum on President Akufo-Addo’s economic vision Richard Aidoo © Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty Images A child holds a flag of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after Nana Akufo-Addo was declared president of Ghana by the Electoral Commission in Accra on Dec. 9. On Dec. 7, almost 13.2 million Ghanaians voted to reelect incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Akufo-Addo received 51.3 percent of the vote, mainly defeating his predecessor John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), ...