The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) collected GHS 185.5 billion between January and October 2026, GHS 1.1 billion more than its 10-month target of GHS 184.4 billion, Commissioner-General Anthony Kwasi Sarpong said on Tuesday 10 November, 3News and JoyBusiness reported.
"As at October 2026, we had collected GH¢185.5 billion against a target of GH¢184.4 billion for the 10-month period," Mr Sarpong told the 15th Ghana Economic Forum in Accra, organised by the Business & Financial Times.
Already above last year's total
The 10-month figure is higher than the GHS 182 billion the GRA collected in the whole of 2025, which was itself up from GHS 153 billion in 2024, according to the figures given at the forum. That is a rise of about 19% from 2024 to 2025, on StatsGH's calculation.
3News reported the authority's full-year target for 2026 as GHS 237 billion. On that figure, the GRA had collected about 78% of its annual target by the end of October.
Reaching it would require about GHS 51.5 billion in November and December, or roughly GHS 25.8 billion a month, against an average of about GHS 18.6 billion a month so far this year. These are StatsGH calculations from the reported figures; the GRA did not give a projection for the full year.
Mr Sarpong did not break the January to October total down by tax type. He credited the outperformance to administrative and legislative reforms and digital tools, including the Integrated Tax Administration System and the use of artificial intelligence for customs classification, which 3News said lifted monthly customs receipts from about GHS 4 billion to GHS 6.1 billion in July.
Fiscal electronic devices to track Value Added Tax are due to be rolled out in 2027.
GHS 310 billion goal for 2028
"Our ambition is to double the 2024 revenue to about GH¢310 billion by December 2028," Mr Sarpong said, adding that the authority would widen the tax net rather than lean harder on businesses that already comply. "Our objective cannot be to collect more and more from the same taxpayers, year after year," he said.
The figures come two days before Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson presents the 2027 Budget to Parliament at 18:00 on Thursday 12 November. StatsGH has not yet seen a GRA or Ministry of Finance document setting out the October figures; the numbers in this article are as stated by the Commissioner-General and reported by 3News and JoyBusiness.
Sources: Anthony Kwasi Sarpong, GRA Commissioner-General, speech at the 15th Ghana Economic Forum, Accra, 10 November 2026, as reported by 3News and JoyBusiness, 10 November 2026.