Ghana has announced that imported electric vehicles will enjoy zero tariff for eight years from 2024. Ghana’s Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, said that electric vehicles designed for public transportation will also be exempted from import duties for eight years as well as semi- and fully-obsolete vehicles brought into Ghana by registered electric vehicle assembly companies.
The exemption is intended to accelerate the use of electric vehicles in Ghana and to incentivize local manufacturing and assembly of electric vehicles in Ghana. A growing number of African countries have eliminated or reduced import duties and taxes on electric vehicles, including Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Togo, Tunisia, and Zambia. Ghana joined these countries in recent days. The measure is part of several tax reductions proposed by the government. The Government of Ghana will also grant import duty exemptions on agricultural machinery, equipment and inputs, raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry and medical consumables.
