The Ghana Income Authority’s (GRA) administration has assured the enterprise group of reforms in its income mobilization drive. In keeping with the Authority, the ‘Rambo-style’ strategies of tax assortment have been now not in use.
Addressing some members of the Parliamentary Press Corps at a day-long workshop on the Authority’s operations in Accra over the weekend, Mr. Daniel Edisi, the Deputy Commissioner in command of operations, said that the Authority was extra involved with partaking taxpayers than with the deployment of power.
He mentioned: “Now GRA is customer-centric, and please carry this message throughout, and let’s work collectively as a result of, with out taxes, we are able to’t develop our nation. We are able to’t do something.
We go on the market to gather loans and different issues. It’s any person’s residents which have paid the tax. We additionally should endeavour to pay.” “…GRA is able to educate, to make use of channels like this to have the ability to attain on the market for us to see the significance of taxation,” he mentioned.
Mr. Edisi defined that the workshop would assist the general public perceive GRA’s position as a growth accomplice fairly than a ‘harassing company.’
Individuals have been taken via an summary of Ghanaian taxation, together with the authorized framework, the mandate and scope of GRA, taxpayer rights and obligations, registration, submitting and fee, and coverage initiatives.
The press corps was additionally taught about private tax aid, commerce facilitation, income assortment, preventive (safety), and customs processes and procedures. The facilitators who tutored the Press Corps included Mr. Lawrence Hotsonyame,
Assistant Commissioner, Coaching and Growth; Chief Income Officer Edward Bagiyri, Head Import and Export Unit, and Mr. Alphonse Quainoo, Assistant Commissioner, Coaching and Growth, Customs. GNA
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