ATC Ghana’s Defacto SMP Status and Implications for Smaller Operators

Accra, Ghana//-In June 2020 when Ghana government finally named MTN a significant market power (SMP), the reason precedent in-chief was very simple – MTN had for years controlled about 75 per cent share of the industry cumulatively – in terms of subscribers, voice and data traffic, SMS, value-added services like mobile money and revenue among […]

Ghanaians Must Brace Themselves: The Electronic Transactions Tax is Here to Stay

Electronic payments have expanded the Ghanaian economy. Wikimedia Commons PK Senyo, University of Southampton Ghana’s finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has announced that the government intends to introduce an electronic transaction levy (e-levy) in the 2022 budget. He said this was to “widen the tax net and rope in the informal sector”.