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Ghana lost GH¢1.8 billion through illicit trade activities in the petroleum sector last year, a 2017 industry report on the petroleum sector has revealed. About GH¢1.4 billion of that amount was lost through smuggling and export dumping, while about GH¢339.2 million and GH¢148.9 million were lost to unreported Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA) receipts and transfer pricing, respectively. Event The ...

News about the leading and indigenous oil marketing company, GOIL venturing into the upstream sector of the industry, could be a feather in the cap of local content participation as well as inclusive growth. Because it will lead to a significant increase in Ghana’s participation in this God-given resource. Although the upstream is considered one of the very profitable areas, ...

Ghana’s balance of trade is set to receive support from cocoa export and oil production revenues this year according to researchers at Standard Bank, parent company of Stanbic Bank Ghana. This was contained in the April edition of the African Local Markets Monthly report prepared by Standard Bank. According to the report, “after strong economic growth in 2017, reaching 8.5 ...

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GES) has taken its bullish run to another level, with the composite index registering a 35.26 per cent year-to-date (YTD) return on investment in the first quarter of this year – far above returns recorded on some of its African peers within the same period. Data released by the Fidelity Bank showed that apart from the ...

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called on prospective investors, particularly those from India, to take advantage of the increasingly business-friendly environment being created by the Nana Akufo-Addo government to set up businesses in Ghana. Vice President Bawumia has also assured the investor community of adequate protection and market for their investments, and expressed Government’s willingness to engage with ...

Government of Ghana stands to lose over two hundred millions Ghana cedis revenue from the mining operations of RCP quarry concession at Ablekuma in Accra if concrete measures are not put in place to enforce existing rules and regulations with law and order. The RCP, a quarry company was established in 1999, and commenced business operation on January 1st 2000, ...

The Manager of the Asokwa Small Taxpayer Office of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr. Sakyi Duodu, says voluntary tax compliance is vital to government’s push towards “Ghana beyond aid”. Every income earner should accept to voluntarily pay their tax to achieve this vision. Mr. Duodu identified taxation as the lifeblood of every economy and said the economies of the ...

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) says it welcomes the intense public discussions around the findings and recommendations of its report on the inspection of petroleum- funded projects shared with Ghanaians at its Press Conference on Tuesday, 10 April, 2018. It however regrets attempts by some individuals to cast doubt on the integrity of the report in question. The ...

Ghana and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have agreed to review bilateral cooperation in various sectors to support the attainment of the Ghana Beyond Aid Vision. To this end, a working group is to be set up at the political and technical levels to draw awork plan to concretise this understanding. This decision was reached when Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of ...

The Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations and member representative organizations of Persons with disabilities are working tirelessly to ensure that bills that do not address their issues are not passed into law. They bemoan their concerns have mostly been relegated to the back burner and thus, time has arrived for them to press for inclusion of their issues into the ...