While many of us were celebrating the arrival of 2026, the tax landscape in Ghana shifted beneath our feet. As of yesterday, January 1, 2026, the new Value Added Tax Act, 2025 (Act 1151) is officially in effect. If you are doing business in Ghana today, be it general trading, consulting, importing or operating a shop, the rules you played by last year might now be putting you at risk of non-compliance. We have analysed the VAT Administrative Guidelines nd broken them down int