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GRA on why it is not automatic rule that travellers carrying more than 2 mobile phones will be required to pay Customs duty

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GRA on why it is not automatic rule that travellers carrying more than 2 mobile phones will be required to pay Customs duty

[Watch the attached video below] GRA on why it is not automatic rule that travellers carrying more than 2 mobile phones will be required to pay Customs duty [VIDEO] — DailyGraphic GraphicOnline (@Graphicgh) September 3, 2026 But in a press statement issued on Thursday evening (September 3, 2026) clarifying the issue, the Ghana Revenue Authority said it had noted the public discussion following the recent comments on the Customs treatment of mobile phones brought into the country bytravellers.

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has clarified that it is not an automatic rule that a traveller carrying more than two mobile phones into Ghana will be required to pay Customs duty.[Watch the attached video below] Mr Aaron Kanor, speaking to the media during a recent to the Accra International Airport on a duty tour said, "when you travel overseas, when you are coming, someone gives you seven phones (mobile), when you carry all those seven phones and you arrive [in Ghana], it will amount to commercial because as an individual, you are entitled to one.

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