Association of Ghana Industries

AGI Urges Industries To Reduce Carbon Footprint
26 Aug

AGI Urges Industries To Reduce Carbon Footprint

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The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has pledged to partner with relevant stakeholders to ensure that industries in the country reduce their carbon footprint. This, the association said, is crucial toward the contribution to the global call on reduction of carbon emission, which is gradually becoming harmful to the environment. In this vein, the AGI is encouraging its members to adopt renewables, which are a more efficient and cleaner source of energy in their operations, to minimise impacts on the environment. It said clean energy sources – such as solar, biomass and wind – are fast becoming the centre of…
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AGI Cautions Against Removal Of Taxes On Imported Sanitary Pads
26 Jun

AGI Cautions Against Removal Of Taxes On Imported Sanitary Pads

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The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is cautioning against any policy measure that seeks to remove taxes on imported sanitary pads at the expense of locally produced ones. It warned that such a move will be very detrimental to the economy. “Much as the waiver of duties/taxes on imported sanitary pads for our young women to make the pads more affordable may sound good, this will only end up completely wiping out the few local sanitary pad factories left in our country. Therefore, the Association is of the view that the call for removal of duties on imported sanitary pads…
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AGI Calls For Recalculation Of VAT On Raw Materials
05 Jun

AGI Calls For Recalculation Of VAT On Raw Materials

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The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has called for the recalculation of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on raw materials that are unavailable in the country to reduce the cost of production. The current calculation of VAT, which included the basic VAT and six per cent on the total goods, coupled with high utility charges, were crippling local production and industrialisation, it said. Mr Tsonam Akpeloo, the Chairman of the Association, said this at a breakfast meeting organised by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre in Tema. He said the high cost of production in Ghana was making competition with other…
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Fast-Track System Upgrade – AGI To GRIDCo
18 Mar

Fast-Track System Upgrade – AGI To GRIDCo

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The Association of Ghana Industries has admonished the Ghana Grid Company, (GRIDCo) to hasten its announced system upgrade to prevent any negative effect on operations of industries. Speaking to Citi Business News, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Ghana Industries, Seth Twum Akwaboah while commending GRIDCo for announcing the upgrade timelines urged the company to stick to its schedule. “We all experienced the recent power cut but our understanding of it as it has been explained by GRIDCo that it was a technical problem, and once you are working with machines you will occasionally have this situation. So for…
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