{"id":260477,"date":"2025-11-13T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:09:12","slug":"government-to-scrap-covid-levy-in-2026-budget-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260477\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to scrap COVID levy in 2026 budget statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Government-to-scrap-COVID-levy-in-2026-budget-statement-2009246?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/78601931.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance\" title=\"Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/> <\/a>Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Minister of Finance is scheduled to present the 2026 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament on Thursday, November 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This crucial presentation will outline the government\u2019s revenue and expenditure estimates for the 2026 fiscal year, along with key policy measures aimed at stabilising the economy and promoting sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 budget is expected to focus on strategies to sustain Ghana\u2019s economic recovery under the IMF-supported programme, tackle inflation, create jobs, and enhance local production capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the presentation, various stakeholders, including business associations, labour unions, and civil society organisations, have expressed high expectations.<\/p>\n<p>They are calling for pragmatic and realistic policies that prioritise social welfare, debt sustainability, and fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, who announced the presentation date in Parliament, urged members to prepare for a thorough and constructive debate on the budget once it is laid before the House.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament is expected to commence discussions in the coming weeks before approving the financial policy to pave the way for implementation beginning January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance The Minister of Finance is scheduled to present the 2026 Budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-260477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}