Starting today, Ghanaians will no longer have to pay a 10% tax on their gross gambling winnings.
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Ghana.- In a significant development, President John Dramani Mahama<\/strong> has signed into law a series of bills repealing the electronic transfer levy, betting tax and emissions tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The taxes, which are unpopular with the public, were a key focus of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)<\/strong> party’s campaign, which pledged to abolish them upon assuming office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The move also aligns with President Mahama\u2019s election promise to remove the levies within his first 120 days<\/strong> in office. He said: \u201cThis is a commitment we made to the people of Ghana, and today, we have honoured it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The e-levy, implemented in 2022 by the New Patriotic Party (NPP)<\/strong>, imposed a 1.5% tax on electronic transactions like online payments and mobile money transfers. As expected, the measure was met with widespread public backlash, with many claiming that it unfairly burdened ordinary citizens and businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The betting tax was introduced in December 2023 and required bettors to pay a 10% withholding charge<\/strong> on their winnings from betting, gaming and lotto. Like the e-levy, the tax faced strong opposition from industry stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The process to repeal the taxes began on March 13, 2025, when Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson<\/strong> presented eight tax reform bills to parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to repealing the betting tax, e-levy and emissions tax, the legislation proposed changes to the income tax and earmarked funds capping bill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, March 26 2025, parliament passed the bills and forwarded them to the president\u2019s office for assent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By scrapping the draconian taxes, Mahama aims to provide Ghanaian citizens with even more financial relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting today, Ghanaians will no longer have to pay a 10% tax on their gross gambling winnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2395,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Ghana has repealed the 10% betting tax on gross gambling winnings, alongside an electronic transfer levy and emissions tax, effective immediately. This legislative action, spearheaded by President John Dramani Mahama, fulfills a key campaign promise aimed at providing financial relief to citizens and industry stakeholders.","focusai_entities":"John Dramani Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson","focusai_location":"Ghana","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.98), affiliate_publisher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR\/NGR?","query":"What is the projected quantitative impact of the betting tax repeal on the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for licensed iGaming operators in Ghana over the next 12-24 months?"},{"label":"FDI in Ghana?","query":"How is this fiscal policy shift, particularly the removal of the betting tax and e-levy, anticipated to influence foreign direct investment (FDI) into Ghana's iGaming and broader digital economy sectors?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[60020,60012],"tags":[2689],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-west-africa","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}