The Ghana Revenue
Authority (GRA) says its collaboration with the Economic and Organised Crime
Office (EOCO) has been useful in dealing with delinquent taxpayers, as over 1,000
taxpayers who were outside the tax net have been identified.
GRA management and EOCO’s
top management at the beginning of last year collaborated to retrieve taxes owed to
state by recalcitrant individuals and institutions. The partnership, which has approval from
the highest level of government, was to enable the GRA attain its goal of
generating enough revenue for the state and also find ways of dealing with
debtors that have long been on the Authority’s books.
Mr. George Blankson,
Commissioner-General GRA, said this in Accra when presenting office equipment
including computers, accessories, heavy-duty printers and photocopiers to management
of the EOCO to enhance its operations.
Presenting the items,
Mr. Blankson explained that the gesture was to strengthen the existing
partnership between the two institutions.
He said the GRA is
ready to extend the boundary of support to EOCO when revenues increased to
enable them collaborate to enhance revenue collection target.
Mr. Justice Tsar, acting
Executive Director EOCO, said his outfit will continue to work in close
collaboration with the GRA to help retrieve taxes owed to the state.
“The cooperation was
necessary as a collective activity to bring the state the necessary revenue for
development,” he remarked.
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