The Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, PhD, has given the strongest assurance that the COVID-19 levy will be abolished.
The minister gave this assurance while presenting the mid-year budget review on July 24, 2025.
“The Covid levy will be published,” he said.
The minister further indicated that all the measures announced in the 2025 budget statement to stabilise the Cedi against the major trading currencies are yielding real results.
The minister used the opportunity to tout the establishment of the GoldBod, which has given the government the needed results and helped stabilize the cedi.
“We committed to establishing the Gold bod to support the stability of the Cedi,” he said, adding that these deliberate policies announced in the 2025 budget are yielding results.”
“The Cedi performance in the first half of the year has been impressive,” he stressed while delivering the 2025 mid-year budget in Parliament on Thursday, July 24.
