GRA clamps down on tax offenders

The Ghana Revenue Authority is warning small and big businesses alike to honour their tax obligations or risk a possible clamp-down on their operations.The Authority has inaugurated a Special Revenue Mobilisation task force, which has since August this year collected more than 107 million Ghana cedis worth of tax returns.The task force took to the streets and some businesses were shut down and others besieged for various tax offences.

According to reports, the task force visited a number of restaurants and night clubs around the Abeka Lapaz, a suburb of Accra.At the Rhytmz night club, a man was arrested because he resisted the work of the task force.Chief Revenue officer of the VRA Theophilus Gaskine cautioned business men to pay their taxes promptly."We want to issue a note of caution to all tax payers. It doesn't mean it is only tax payers who operate in the night."Even tax payers who operate in the day must take this note of caution that GRA is now well poised to ensure that the tax system is sanitized. We want to ensure fairness, equity, transparency in tax activity and the overall tax justice.

"This must be well served so that all tax payers who operate both day and night will know there is equity in the tax system and they will gladly like to discharge their tax obligations accordingly," he said.

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