The Minister for Finance has been urged to get his facts right regarding the benefits Ghanaian taxpayers have received from the lottery business, following claims that taxpayers are only now beginning to benefit from the sector.
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In a sharp rebuttal, a concerned stakeholder has described the Minister’s comments as misinformation, insisting that taxpayers have been major beneficiaries of the lottery industry through both the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the National Lottery Authority (NLA).
According to the statement, Ghanaian taxpayers, through the GRA, received over GHS 153 million from KGL Technology Limited on April 16, 2026, for the 2025 financial year alone.
In addition, taxpayers through the NLA benefited from over GHS 173 million from KGL within the same period.
“As Finance Minister, he needs to be interested in understanding how the NLA received GHS 173 million from KGL, while the Ministry of Finance received only GHS 10 million in dividends from the NLA,” the statement queried.
Other Operators Also Paying
For the records, it was revealed that 29 other private lotto operators licensed by the National Lottery Authority also paid GHS 44.9 million to the NLA in 2025.It is believed that these 29 licensed operators equally pay taxes to the Ghana Revenue Authority.
“Therefore, strictly speaking, the Finance Minister has engaged in misinformation on this particular subject matter. It is NEVER TRUE that this is the first time the taxpayers are benefitting from lottery business since 2018,” the statement stressed.
Real Problem Is Wastage At NLA
The statement further argued that the core problem facing the NLA is not necessarily the agreements with private operators, but the massive wastage of financial resources within the Authority itself.
“It does not make sense for NLA to use over 90% of its income on Good Causes Foundation & other CSR activities and pays only GHS 10 million dividend to the Ministry of Finance,” it said.
The author contended that as a resetting government, the focus should be on tackling financial wastage at the NLA rather than merely reviewing agreements.
“It is not necessarily about reviewing of agreements but it is about tackling wastage of financial resources at the NLA as a resetting government. The more NLA receives the more they used the money on needless internal operations and activities at the detriment of the taxpayers,” the statement concluded.
