The government is holding off on implementing the controversial GH₵1 fuel levy until global oil market conditions become more favourable, Deputy Energy Minister Richard Gyan-Mensah has reiterated.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV's The Point of View on Monday June 16, following growing public interest in the suspended Energy Sector Levies (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 1141), the Deputy Minister explained that while the levy remains a necessary fiscal tool, its introduction is being timed to minimise the burden on Ghanaians. "We've always tried to get the fuels, but it's actually put a lot more burden on us.
That is why this levy was being introduced," Gyan-Mensah stated. "Government is still monitoring the market… even from what we have today, I've seen that from tomorrow, prices that are going to come up will determine how the market turns out to be.
If we see it going down, we would introduce it." He revealed that the levy - which would add GH₵1 to every litre of petrol and diesel and 20 pesewas to LPG - could be implemented as early as tomorrow, depending on how international oil prices evolve overnight.
