Former Finance Minister Amin Mohammed has admitted that his earlier statement about the betting tax may have caused some misunderstanding but insists that any confusion on the betting tax issue stems from the current Finance Minister’s lack of clarity.
“I’ve listened to my statement again, and if it created the impression that I meant betting tax on bet winnings was not implemented, then that was inaccurate on my part,” he admitted.
However, he was quick to add that his real intent was to highlight the distinction between betting tax and taxes on other forms of lottery winnings.
“What I meant to say was that what the minister called betting tax—specifically as it relates to lotto winnings—was not implemented,” he clarified.
He further urged the Finance Minister to come out and clear the air. “The confusion about betting tax and lottery winning tax is not mine; it is the Minister’s. He must come out and clarify this issue properly,” he asserted.
It would be recalled that Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, while addressing the press after the budget statement was presented by the present Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, insisted that their government never implemented a betting tax.
According to him, it is shocking that a tax which was not implemented is being scrapped by the government.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, betting tax that they said they had abolished, we never collected betting tax. We never implemented the betting tax so to come and tell Ghanaians that you have abolished something that was never implemented is to deceive the people of Ghana,” he stated.
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