The Inconvenient Truth with Ing. Professor Douglas K. Boateng: Are we governing a future we have already decided not to visit?

There is a conversation about governance in Africa that we do not have often enough. We talk about elections, manifestos, budgets, infrastructure, economic growth, digitisation, public-sector reform and institutional performance.

Executive Summary The Income Tax (Amendment) Act, 2026 (Act 1178) provides targeted relief to individual taxpayers and broadens access to Ghana’s presumptive tax regime for small businesses. The Act increases the annual tax-free threshold for resident individuals from GH¢5,880 to GH¢7,056 and raises the presumptive tax turnover threshold from GH¢500,000 to GH¢750,000.

“When a leader does not address a problem well, the problem becomes the leader, and the leader becomes the problem.” – African proverb

The next decade will be one of the most consequential periods for businesses across Africa.

Free Senior High School education is an important intervention in Ghana’s ambition to build a more prosperous and inclusive economy.

Activities in Ghana’s upstream oil sector have fallen sharply from initial expectations.

Why does everyone want you to sign an NDA? Simple. Because you don’t know the Winklevosses.

Ghana’s economy is entering a new phase of resilience and expansion, buoyed by recent macroeconomic stabilisation efforts and renewed investor confidence.