Smuggling Prompts Africa’s Biggest Gold Producer to Rethink Export Tax

  • Ghana introduced a gold-export tax for small miners last year
  • Small miners account for a third of the nation’s gold ouput
Photographer: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty Images
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Ghana is reconsidering a tax that’s spurred an increase in gold smuggling from small mines, a trend that’s depriving the country of much-needed revenue.