45% tax on bottled water

Many countries have inadequate public water supplies. Bottled water is often a real lifeline.

It is difficult to believe, therefore, that any country in the world already imposes a 45% tax on bottled water:

• 10% excise duty on local production or imported plastic
• 17.5% ex-factory price tax
• 17.5% value added tax.

It is even more astonishing to discover that this country is now considering extra taxation on bottled water.

Which country ? Ghana. Surely, a tax too far.