Bawumia Lists 9 Incentives His Govt Will Provide To Boost Businesses | Business News

Vice President and Flagbearer of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says his government will priorit businesses, especially SMEs, to enhance their growth and boost the economy through job creation.

At the launch of the NPP 2024 Manifesto in Takoradi on Sunday, Dr. Bawumia listed a number of his bold initiatives and incentives for businesses.

Dr. Bawumia announced his government will offer the following solutions to businesses:

a. incentivise Ghanaian start-ups in selected, strategic sectors with Investment Tax Credits (ITC) for the first three (3) years of their operations.

b. Flat Rate for all importers; bringing predictability and stability on prices of imported goods.

c. harmonise port charges to align with charges in competing regional ports, particularly Togo. Duties at our ports will be same or lower.

d. use Government’s purchasing power to stimulate industrial expansion and business growth, which will help create jobs, by rolling out a “Buy Ghana First” policy under which all goods and services procured by the public sector will first be filled by goods and services produced locally.

e. Implement a shift in electricity tariffs structure to a regime in which commercial rates are either equal to, or lower than residential rates, never higher, to power industries and businesses.

f. establish an SME Bank to meet the special financing needs of small and medium businesses, which employ over 80% of Ghanaians.

g. reform the licensing regime for the small-scale mining sector, reduce the minerals export tax to 1% to discourage gold smuggling, and establish a Minerals Development Bank to finance viable local mineral projects, small scale miners, as well as Ghanaian mining and mining services firms.

h. complete the digitalisation of land titling and registration to allow owners of landed properties to use their properties as collateral to raise capital for business growth and expansion.

i. Special Economic Zones ( Free Zones) will also be created in collaboration with the private sector at Ghana’s major border towns such as Aflao, Paga, Elubo, Sankasi and Tatale to enhance economic activity, increase exports, reduce smuggling and create jobs.