Author Description

A must have, well-researched reference work, tracing fiscal regimes that have been associated with Ghana's long history of mining, documenting the rationale for changes that occurred, all the way from precolonial times, when traditional authorities in charge of the sector collected fiscal/pseudo-fiscal levies, through colonisation and independence to contemporary times."This work is thus seminal for the mining industry in Ghana. The book is the collected and compiled distillation of the learning and experiences of the author as the key industry actor and active consultant he was in the mining field for well over two decades.... provides a structured approach to help policymakers, researchers, industry actors and ministries in charge of finance and mines to analyse and identify ways to address challenges linked with... mining tax policy.... Other categories of persons who will find the book very useful include students and lecturers of mineral resources taxation/law, tax practitioners, lawyers, and judges."Abdallah Ali-Nakyea (Managing Partner/Director, Ali-Nakyea & Associates (A-N & A) "From an historical angle, A Historical Overview of Ghana's Mining Sector Fiscal Regimes provides interesting insights, which have not been previously brought together in such a way, into some aspects of the Ghanaian economy-mining sector interplay from the time of pre-independence".Kwame Addo-Kufuor FCA (President of the Ghana Chamber of Mines)"... a novel compendium of such information and it will serve as a valuable resource of information on Ghana's attempt to equitably share the benefits from mining. It is my opinion that it will facilitate policy formulation as well as research in the subject".Edward Gyamerah (Deputy Commissioner, Ghana Revenue Authority)The author is a mineral economist by training; a well-respected mining-sector policy formulator and implementer with several years' experience, some 13 years of which he was the CEO of Ghana's Minerals Commission (2001-2014) a