Setting Up a Business in Ghana

An in-depth guide for foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the Ghanaian market — a genuinely stable West African democracy undergoing a real, externally verified macroeconomic turnaround, with a growing services and resource sector.
This guide covers legal structures — including the crucial distinction between trading and non-trading entities, the latter no longer subject to minimum capital under the 2026 GIPA reform — business taxation (a headline 25% rate that ranges in practice from 8% to 35% depending on sector, plus regional incentives and a 10-year zero-tax free zone regime), company formation, the cost of labor, and immigration routes, including automatic expatriate quotas for GIPA-registered investors. Includes a dedicated chapter on Ghana’s IMF-backed macroeconomic recovery, its gold and cocoa sectors, Accra’s rise as a West African tech hub anchored by Africa’s first Google engineering centre, and the “One District One Factory” industrialization programme. An operational checklist and useful contacts round out the guide.
Available in English.