Former Finance Minister, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam seems to have staired the hornets nest with a comment he made in reaction to his successor's announcement of government's decision to abolish Betting Tax.
During his presentation of the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy on March 11, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson announced that government will abolish betting tax. "Mr.
Speaker: we will abolish the 10% withholding tax on winnings from lottery, otherwise known as the "Betting Tax."" However, addressing journalists in Parliament shortly after the presentation of the 2025 Budget, the Karaga MP accused the government of deceiving Ghanaians by committing to abolish the "Betting Tax.
He claimed that the NPP administration never implemented the betting tax, hence Ghanaians should not rejoice over the announcement to remove the tax as it never existed. "Ladies and Gentlemen, betting tax that they said they had abolished, we never collected betting tax.
