Ministry To Reduce Taxes On Clubs

The Ministry of Youth and Sports is considering reducing the tax clubs pay for using the national facilities to host their matches.

Premier League Clubs lose about forty percent of gate proceeds to the National Sports Authority (NSA), and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) after league matches.

The Sports Ministry, according to Hon. Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, will consider the percentage charged as they bid to help grow the local game.

“I am keen follower of our game and I have always said that this year’s league seem to give us much more attraction and hope for the future than we’ve seen in the past,” the MP for Odododiodio Constituency said in a meeting with GHALCA Executives.

“Attendance has improved and the quality of the game is also improving. So I thought that was going for us to have a very smooth and interesting league that will be to the benefit of the league clubs and to all of us.

“But all over sudden, this issue of violence has the ability of affecting attendance and also making look a bit untidy.

“It is not easy for anyone to run a club in this country. It is not easy and I wonder how the clubs manage. As such, everything that needs to be done in other for clubs to feel okay, we as a Ministry will all we can to take the burden of the club officials.

“I am negotiating with the Ministry of Finance and the Ghana revenue authority on how to relook at the tax component that are on the tickets for our matches. I think enquity is the order of the day and as such we must look at it constructively.

“If the clubs play and they lose about forty-nine percent of their proceeds to taxes, then we are not helping them to develop the game. We have to thinker with it a bit so that it will give them the freedom to develop our players and develop our teams.” He said.

Ministry To Reduce Taxes On Clubs