What was charged
Ten per cent of gross winnings, under the Income Tax (Amendment) Act 2023. Gross rather than net is the part that stung: the withholding applied to the payout rather than to the payout minus the stake, so a punter who staked a hundred and won a hundred and ten was taxed on the hundred and ten.
It was repealed on 2 April 2025 under Act 1129. A licensed operator pays winnings in full today.
Why the wrong version keeps appearing
Two directions of error, and both are live on real pages right now.
The first says Ghana taxes winnings. That was true and stopped being true in April 2025, and at least one bookmaker on this market’s register still states a withholding figure in its own terms, which is stale operator copy rather than current law.
The second says Ghanaian winnings have always been untaxed, usually because the sentence was written for a market where that is true and then reused. It is wrong about every year between 2023 and 2025, which is the period most readers are actually thinking about.
The honest form carries the repeal date, which is why every page on this site that touches the subject does.
The other tax, which is not yours
Twenty per cent on gross gaming revenue remains, and it is an operator obligation. It does not come out of a payout and no punter sees it.
Separately from both of those, a levy on mobile money transfers ran from 2022 and ended on the same date in April 2025 as the withholding on winnings. Two different taxes, two different repealing instruments, one date, and they are constantly written up as a single thing.