{"id":6740,"date":"2025-01-13T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:33:12","slug":"e-levy-betting-tax-to-be-abolished-in-first-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/e-levy-betting-tax-to-be-abolished-in-first-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"E-levy, betting tax to be abolished in first budget\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6744\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6744\" src=\"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/589668121-237x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/589668121-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/589668121.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Cassiel Ato Forson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adnan Adams Mohammed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister designated, Dr Casiel Ato Forson, has assured Ghanaians to expect the first budget of the current administration to abolish E-levy, betting tax and COVID-19 levy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He made this revelation during his vetting in Parliament today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister designate, insisted that those taxes are nuisance taxes which he cannot easily identify their nature as either they are direct or indirect taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The betting tax brings in less than GHC50 million annually&#8221;, Dr Ato Forson posited. &#8220;Such tax if scrapped cannot affect the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, he explained that, the introduction of the E-levy fights the cashless economy agenda successive government have intended to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elevy will be abolished in first budget within the 120days as promised&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Adnan Adams Mohammed &nbsp; The Finance Minister designated, Dr Casiel Ato Forson, has assured Ghanaians to expect the first budget of the current administration to abolish E-levy, betting tax and COVID-19 levy. &nbsp; He made this revelation during his vetting in Parliament today. &nbsp; The Minister designate, insisted that those taxes are nuisance taxes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,9],"tags":[1202,1046,1938,1940,1939],"class_list":{"0":"post-6740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy-and-finance","7":"category-minerals-and-energy","8":"category-news","9":"category-politics","10":"tag-dr-cassiel-ato-forson","11":"tag-energy-minister","12":"tag-finance-minister-designate","13":"tag-john-dramani-mahama-government","14":"tag-john-jinapor"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>E-levy, betting tax to be abolished in first budget\u00a0 - News Guide Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/e-levy-betting-tax-to-be-abolished-in-first-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"E-levy, betting tax to be abolished in first budget\u00a0 - News Guide Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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