AGI advocates for policies that will:
- Strengthen the competitiveness of local industries
- Enhance the effectiveness of markets
- Generate opportunities for private businesses
- Create employment in all regions of Ghana
AGI dialogues with Government to source:
- Conducive industrial policies
- Removal of excessive bureaucracy
- Reforms of the tax system
- Modernisation of infrastructure
- Demand oriented vocational training programmes
In recent years, AGI has successfully lobbied for:
- The passage of the VAT Deferment Act on imported raw materials.
- The reduction in Corporate Tax from 32.5% to 25%.
- The Public Procurement Act 2003 (Act 663) to assist the local business community to supply to the public sector. (AGI members are qualified suppliers under this Act.)
- A reduction of the Withholding Tax with possible total exemption on application to IRS.
- Review of a Bill to promote development of SMEs.
Advocacy activities:
- Annual inputs to the National Budget (GoG)
- Review of Tax Policies and Administration
- Modernisation of Infrastructure for industrial development
- Reform of the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- Implementation and monitoring of the Private Sector Development Strategy
- Promotion of “Made in Ghana” products and services
- Business Climate Surveys
- Sector Surveys and Analysis of Industrial Performance
- Development of AGI SME Agenda 2008 and Regional Competitiveness Index