{"id":446384,"date":"2017-12-12T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/metro-tv-pays-gra-debt\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T20:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:04:56","slug":"metro-tv-pays-gra-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/metro-tv-pays-gra-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro TV pays GRA debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/24351996.295.jpg\" alt=\"Metro Gra Debt\" title=\"Metro Gra Debt\" width=\"295\" height=\"169\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Metro TV was shut down on Tuesday morning over non-payment of taxes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513109096_324_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Management of Popular Television station, Metro TV has mobilised money to pay off a debt it owed the Ghana Revenue Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The station was shut down Tuesday morning over non-payment of taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The station which was off air is likely to begin operations again.<\/p>\n<p>Starrfmonline.com gathered that new owners of the Accra-based television, the Jospong Group of companies, were not made aware of certain tax liabilities left by the previous owners.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, not clear how much the station owed the state.<\/p>\n<p>The GRA has recently embarked on an exercise to shut down companies and institutions who have not settled their tax obligations.<\/p>\n<p>The GRA last week almost shut down the Accra Mall over non-payment of taxes amounting to GHS2.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro TV was shut down on Tuesday morning over non-payment of taxes Management of Popular Television station, Metro TV has mobilised money to pay off a debt it owed the Ghana Revenue Authority. The station was shut down Tuesday morning over non-payment of taxes. The station which was off air is likely to begin operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Metro TV pays GRA debt - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/metro-tv-pays-gra-debt\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Metro TV pays GRA debt - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Metro TV was shut down on Tuesday morning over non-payment of taxes Management of Popular Television station, Metro TV has mobilised money to pay off a debt it owed the Ghana Revenue Authority. 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