“My Take” on Matters That Matter

Lock in and improve Ghana’s health taxes: there should be no backing down on the fight for public health!
February 24, 2025
Amos Laar, Ph.D Professor of Public Health Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana I have become aware of calls from the Food and Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG) for the removal of Ghana´s excise taxes on health-harming products such as tobacco, alcohol, and sugar sweetened beverages …Read More »
Press Conference: Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
February 23, 2023
The Ghanaian Parliament in December, 2022, tabled, debated, voted, and approved a Bill to tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) and other health-harming commodities and products – as per the Ghana Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2022. The past couple of months, I have presented my take on this policy intervention. Last week, …Read More »
Position Statement “Our Take”
February 4, 2023
The Ghanaian Parliament on December 20, 2022, tabled, debated, voted, and approved (for the second time) a Bill to tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) and other products – as per the Ghana Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2022. Over the past four weeks, I have presented my take on this policy intervention. …Read More »
My Take on Ghana’s Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2022: [Part IV]
January 29, 2023
The Ghanaian Parliament on December 20, 2022 debated, voted, and approved a Bill to tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) and other products – as per the Ghana Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2022. Over the past three weeks, I have presented my take on this policy intervention – via this four-part article. …Read More »
My Take on Ghana’s Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2022: [Part III]
January 22, 2023
The Ghanaian Parliament on December 20, 2022 debated, voted, and approved a Bill to tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) and other products – as per the Ghana Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2022. In this series, I present my take on this policy intervention. In Part II, I restated some of the …Read More »