Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has branded the GRA’s current strategy of focusing primarily on existing taxpayers as “lazy.”
He has recommended they employ a more effective plan to target people who have not yet paid their taxes and persuade them to do so.
He asked the GRA to use the Ghana Card-Tax Identification Number (TIN) link to properly identify and collect taxes from people and businesses.
He made the call while addressing the 57th Congregation at KNUST on Friday, November 24, 2024.
He said “By linking the Ghana Card number and the TIN number, GRA can tell who has filed and who has not filed their tax and so it is rich data that is available to GRA and I am asking GRA to use that data,” Bawumia asserted.
“It is a very lazy approach to go and keep looking for taxes from people who are paying taxes already when you could look at those who are not paying taxes who are the vast majority. They should be the ones that GRA should be focusing on and we would get more taxes from the vast majority.”
The Vice President who is also the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) urged them to introduce a bonus system based on new taxpayers GRA officers bring to the net.
He revealed at the event that effective December 2023, the government will launch a new system where every child born in Ghana from birth would be issued with a Ghana Card number.
He added that a credit scoring system would be introduced where those who are diligent in paying their loans will have low-interest rates and more access to loans through the use of the Ghana card.
By: Rashid Obodai provencal/Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
