The Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA) and other health Civil Society Organisations under the Advocating for Health Project (A4H), are making frantic efforts to ensure sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) produced in the country are taxed.
The push for taxes on SSBs by the GhNCDA, is to facilitate the reduction in consumption of SSBs among Ghanaians.
This is aside the health taxes being a potentially reliable source of revenue for government, particularly given the usually tight fiscal space of government.
With the imposition of taxes on SSBs, government is likely to rake in billions of cedis in annual revenue – South Africa in the first year of its imposition of taxes on SSBs, generated 3.2bn Rand in revenue
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