“Ghana must, however, consider traditional measures to guarantee market access seeing as a regional partnership agreement would not have been ratified before the deadline of 14th October of this year”- President Mahama, 2014 State of the Nation Address in...
Coordinator Third World Network (TWN), a civil society group, Dr. Yao Graham, has criticised government over its suspension of windfall profit tax in the mining sector. The Finance Ministry on Monday confirmed that it has put plans to introduce...
African governments must be wary of the European Union?s Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) agenda, which has been designed to keep African countries as perpetual suppliers of raw materials and erode efforts at industrialisation by the continent. ?Apart from threatening...
In October, 2011, the government of Ghana made a promise that it will increase profit tax paid by mining companies, collect windfall profit tax, and implement a uniform regime for capital allowance of 20% for five years. The government deemed these as some of the steps...
The European Commission has come under fire from African legislators and civil organisations for its pursuit of “unrealistic” EPA deadlines (see TNI Vol 10 Number 7). The backlash follows the release of a joint EAC/EU statement at the end of April’s...