Ghana - Taxes on exports

Taxes on exports (current LCU)

The value for Taxes on exports (current LCU) in Ghana was 16,759,000 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 124,855,700 in 2006 and a minimum value of 2,036,000 in 1992.

Definition: Taxes on exports are all levies on goods being transported out of the country or services being delivered to nonresidents by residents. Rebates on exported goods that are repayments of previously paid general consumption taxes, excise taxes, or import duties are deducted from the gross amounts receivable from these taxes, not from amounts receivable from export taxes.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year	Value
1990	2,718,400
1991	3,615,300
1992	2,036,000
1993	3,574,800
2001	29,995,800
2002	36,886,100
2003	79,244,650
2004	98,581,970
2005	63,447,790
2006	124,855,700
2007	33,525,000
2008	40,000,000
2009	16,759,000

Taxes on exports (% of tax revenue)

Taxes on exports (% of tax revenue) in Ghana was 0.36 as of 2009. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 12.37 in 1990, while its lowest value was 0.36 in 2009.

Definition: Taxes on exports are all levies on goods being transported out of the country or services being delivered to nonresidents by residents. Rebates on exported goods that are repayments of previously paid general consumption taxes, excise taxes, or import duties are deducted from the gross amounts receivable from these taxes, not from amounts receivable from export taxes.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

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Year	Value
1990	12.37
1991	11.32
1992	6.75
1993	7.02
2001	4.58
2002	4.32
2003	6.48
2004	5.67
2005	3.06
2006	5.21
2007	1.04
2008	0.95
2009	0.36

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance