20% excise duty on natural juices: A blow to health, jobs, and 24-hour industry

20% excise duty on natural juices: A blow to health, jobs, and 24-hour industry

Ghana’s ambition to industrialise through agriculture, create jobs, stabilise the cedi, and build a 24-Hour Economy depends heavily on agro-processing. Yet one policy—the 20% excise duty on natural fruit juices—is quietly undermining these national objectives. Introduced as a revenue and health measure, the tax is producing the opposite effect: weakening local industry, discouraging healthy consumption, […]

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