MSL Business SchoolGhana Tax Intelligence System
TaxLawGH ONE
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Built and maintained by MSL Business School through TaxLawGH. Research and methodology direction: Michael Siaw Larbi.
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Flagship legal foundation
Three Acts, provision-level depth.
The complete statutory text remains in the legislation readers. TaxLawGH ONE supplies the common route across provisions, histories, controlled answers and related authority.
Act 1151 commenced on 1 January 2026. The interface does not add an amendment to Act 1151 unless an enacted amending instrument is independently verified.
Act 896
Income Tax Act
Consolidated through Act 1134
Open the consolidated readerAct 915
Revenue Administration Act
Consolidated through Act 1129
Open the consolidated readerAct 1151
VAT Act
Commenced 1 January 2026; no enacted amendment verified
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The six entries below are a starting set. The unified console searches every controlled position connected to Acts 896, 915 or 1151.
GH-FACT-0068 · Corporate Income Tax in Ghana
What is the corporate income tax rate in Ghana?
The general rate is 25% of chargeable income. Different rates apply to qualifying hotel income, non-traditional exports, specified financial-institution income, manufacturing income by location, Free Zone income, lottery operations, petroleum operations, mineral operations and statutory concessions.
Open the complete TaxLawGH explanationGH-FACT-0030 · Corporate Income Tax in Ghana
How long can a company carry forward a tax loss in Ghana?
An unrelieved business loss may be used in the five years of assessment following the loss year, subject to source, continuity, ownership, ring-fencing and specialised sector rules.
Open the complete TaxLawGH explanationGH-FACT-0053 · Capital allowance in Ghana
What are Ghana’s capital allowance rates?
The principal rates are 40% for Class 1, 30% for Class 2, 20% for Class 3, 10% for Class 4 and one divided by useful life for Class 5.
Open the complete TaxLawGH explanationGH-FACT-0121 · Ghana Annual Income Tax Return Filing
Does every employee have to file an annual return?
Not necessarily. A resident individual who has no tax payable for the year under section 1(1)(a) is not required to file a return of income. The Commissioner-General may nevertheless require a return by written notice, and the individual may elect to file.
Open the complete TaxLawGH explanationGH-FACT-0178 · Ghana Annual Income Tax Return Filing
When is a Ghana annual income tax return due?
Section 124(1) of Act 896, as amended by section 11 of Act 924, requires the return not later than four months after the end of the person's basis period. A taxpayer with a calendar-year basis period therefore ordinarily files by 30 April of the following year.
Open the complete TaxLawGH explanationGH-FACT-0271 · Withholding Tax in Ghana
Is Ghana withholding tax a final tax?
Only the categories the legislation designates as final have that treatment. These include dividends paid by a resident company, investment rent outside a business of sale or letting, specified examination and endorsement fees, and covered payments to non-residents that are not derived through a Ghanaian permanent establishment. Resident contract deductions and resident petroleum-subcontractor deductions are advance tax credits.
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