Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson has taken swipe at Dr Amin Adam for his claims that the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo did not implement the betting tax.
Former Finance Minister and MP for Karaga, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam while addressing the press after the budget statement was presented, insisted that their government never implemented betting tax.
According to him, it is shocking that a tax which was not implemented is being scrapped by the government.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, betting tax that they said they had abolished, we never collected betting tax. We never implemented the betting tax so to come and tell Ghanaians that you have abolished something that was never implemented is to deceive the people of Ghana,” he stated.
But speaking on Accra-based Joy News, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson indicated that his predecessor is clearly not into of issues when it comes to the betting tax.
He noted that the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had taken GHc 80 million from betting tax.
“I don’t think he’s on top of that matter. Because my checks reveal that it was implemented in the second half of 2024. My check also reveals that to date, the Government of Ghana has collected over Ghc 80 million from betting tax. So I don’t know what he is talking about. The fact on the ground does not support his assertion,” he said on Accra-based Joy News.
