Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has refuted claims that the earlier Original Patriotic Birthday celebration (NPP) govt did no longer put in power the 10% withholding tax on having a wager winnings.
The Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam MP announced the having a wager tax as one in all the levies build of living to be abolished for the length of the presentation of the 2025 price range assertion on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
On the different hand, aged Finance Minister Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam argued at a press conference shortly after the pricetag range presentation that the tax was once never enforced.
“Making a wager tax that they stated they non-public abolished, we never composed having a wager tax. As a plot to come and expose Ghanaians that you simply’ll be in a position to want abolished something that you simply will needn’t applied, is to deceive the of us of Ghana,” Amin Adam stated.
Later that day, for the length of an appearance on JoyNews, Dr. Ato Forson criticized Amin Adam, suggesting that the aged finance minister was once no longer nicely-instructed on the matter.
“I don’t mediate he is on high of that matter resulting from my exams indicate that it was once applied in the 2nd half of of 2024.
“My exams moreover indicate that 300 and sixty five days to this point, the govt. of Ghana has composed GHâµ80 million from the having a wager tax. So I don’t know what he is talking about. It’s no longer the true fact.”
