Budget review: We’re making progress

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, says the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government will not ask Parliament for any additional money. According to him, this was necessitated by the progress made in non-oil tax revenue collection within the year. The Finance Minister made these remarks when he presented the mid-year budget review in Parliament on July 31. “For the first six months of the year, we continue making progress to exceed our non-oil revenue targets for the year. We have seen improvements in non-oil tax revenue collection despite some noticeable shortfalls in VAT. “However, oil revenues have fallen short of expectations…