{"id":230012,"date":"2026-04-10T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-loses-over-gh%c2%a213bn-annually-after-scrapping-of-e-levy-covid-19-levy-betting-tax-cps\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:46:07","slug":"ghana-loses-over-gh%c2%a213bn-annually-after-scrapping-of-e-levy-covid-19-levy-betting-tax-cps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-loses-over-gh%c2%a213bn-annually-after-scrapping-of-e-levy-covid-19-levy-betting-tax-cps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Loses Over Gh\u00a213bn Annually &#8230;After Scrapping of E-Levy, Covid-19 Levy, Betting Tax &#8211; CPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The abolition of the Electronic Levy (E-Levy), COVID-19 Levy and Betting Tax cost Ghana more than GH\u00a213 billion annually in lost revenue, the Centre for Policy Scrutiny (CPS) has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to the policy think tank, the foregone revenue represents a significant setback to the country&#8217;s development agenda, particularly at a time when government continues to grapple with fiscal constraints and rising expenditure demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The centre noted that the scrapped taxes, despite their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090570.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abolition of the Electronic Levy (E-Levy), COVID-19 Levy and Betting Tax cost Ghana more than GH\u00a213 billion annually in lost revenue, the Centre for Policy Scrutiny (CPS) has revealed. According to the policy think tank, the foregone revenue represents a significant setback to the country&#8217;s development agenda, particularly at a time when government continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6193,17933,10081,32926,54124,40725,54123,4508,4509,12638,10569,257,29664,254,8352],"class_list":["post-230012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-after","tag-annually","tag-betting","tag-covid19","tag-cps","tag-elevy","tag-gh13bn","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-levy","tag-loses","tag-news","tag-scrapping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}