GRA to collect GHC8mn in Dec. to meet tax revenue target for 2019
Adnan Adams Mohammed
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), will have to employ
effective and efficient revenue collection strategies to be able to mobilise
about GHC8.0 million for the last month of the year, December to be able to meet
its target for the year.
The Authority, which had missed almost all it quarterly
targets within the year, raked in GHc¢37 billion in tax revenue collected as at
the end of November this year, out of the GH¢45 billion revenue target set by
the authority for 2019.
Averagely, from the GHC37 billion collected so as at
November, the Authority collected GHC3.36 billion on monthly basis. Although the GRA is optimistic of collecting the remaining amount in taxes in order to
meet the target, it is almost unlikely ambition to pursue.
In relation to recent development, the Commissioner-General
of the GRA, Mr Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, briefing the media in Accra about the
recent fire incident in the VAT office at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle noted that,
there was no loss of money nor data, which could hinder the effort to meet
revenue collection targets.
“We want to
reemphasize that the incident has had no negative implication on revenue
collection as we continue to work assiduously to meet our target before end of
year” he asserted.
The GRA has begun moves to rent provisional offices for its
operations as renovation works are set to begin on the affected offices. Staff
of the affected offices have also been redeployed to other GRA offices.
The authority has also served notice to taxpayers who
transact business at the affected Large Taxpayer Office (LTO) to, until
further notice, transact business at the Kinbu Sub LTO, Kaneshie MTO (medium
taxpayer office), Osu MTO, Legon MTO, Tema MTO, while taxpayers at the Adabraka
MTO, could do business at the Adabraka small taxpayer office (STO).
While the GRA regrets the unfortunate incident, it noted, it
is still awaiting reports on the fire from the Ghana National Fire Service to
determine the next line of action.
But the Commissioner-General said the GRA will continue its
nationwide enforcement activities with a number of distress actions scheduled
to take place in the coming weeks.
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