The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has asked financial institutions to stop charging the 17.5 percent VAT on financial services. A statement released by the GRA said the tax has been abolished as part of government’s tax reliefs announced in the 2017 budget statement. Below is the full statement from the GRA: Source:Starrfmonline.com Share on: WhatsApp

The crises at Kotoko continue unabated after the Club reportedly sacked equipment officer Issah Amadu. According to a report by Kumasi-based Angel FM, Amadu was asked not to return to the team after the Club had confirmed parting ways with team manager Shilla Alhassan. Kotoko prior to the latest decision had sacked assistant Coach Michael Osei and head Coach Zdarvsko ...

Nigerian female pop star, Tiwa Savage’s estranged husband Tunji Balogun, popularly known as Teebillz, has expressed his regrets. Teebillz revealed that if he could turn back the hands of time, he would not do an elaborate wedding. He said the belief that men should always dominate every aspect of the marriage was incorrect. Teebillz was speaking as a panelist at ...

The one week camp meeting organized by Agape New Testament Church -Teens Ministry christened S.W.A.G CAMP has made significant impact. S.W.A.G is an abbreviation which stands for : S – Stay , W – Wide, A – Awake for G – God. The annual teens program of the Agape House Church is an avenue to train the teens to know ...

The sixth Ghana UK Based Achievement (GUBA) Awards launch, is set to take place on Friday the 21 of April, 2017 at the British High Commissioner’s residence in Accra. A statement issued by the British High Commission and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the launch would be subsequent to a dinner reception where the British High Commissioner to ...

Serena Williams will return to world number one next week but may not stay atop the rankings for long after hinting on Wednesday that she is pregnant. The confirmation came hours after Williams, due to regain to the No. 1 world ranking next week, set off a day of frenzied speculation with a short-lived selfie posted on social media – ...

Ghanaian comedian, Derrick Kobina Bonney, aka DKB, has rendered an unqualified apology to former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings. DKB’s performance drove the former first lady out of the auditorium due to some vulgar words he used during his performance at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) last Saturday, April 15, 2017. Although, he admitted that he was not feeling ...

Two people have been shot dead, while two others have sustained gunshot wounds at Nkonya in the Volta Region in resurged violence on Wednesday. The renewed violence occurred barely hours after a curfew imposed on the area in view of the violence there, was reviewed on Wednesday. Police say the perpetrators of the gun violence are from Alavanyo, a rival ...

The banking industry average base rate as at the end of March stood at 26.7%, data from the Bank of Ghana has shown. The data indicates a drop of 0.9 percent in the base rate from the month- end January rate of 27.6%. The data is contained in the Central Bank’s latest data on Annual Percentage Rates (APR) of interest ...

John Dramani came face to face with Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Daniel Bugri Naabu for the first time since the NPP stalwart made scathing allegations against him. The two prominent sons of the North met at the 41st National Congress of the Gonjaland Youth Association held at Sawla in the Northern. Whiles exchanging pleasantries with ...