{"id":1173314,"date":"2022-08-10T19:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/lets-simplify-the-filing-processes-for-taxpayers-gra\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T19:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:28:24","slug":"lets-simplify-the-filing-processes-for-taxpayers-gra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/lets-simplify-the-filing-processes-for-taxpayers-gra\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s simplify the filing processes for taxpayers \u2013 GRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Kumasi, Aug. 10, GNA &#8211; Mr Amishaddai Owusu-Amoah, the Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has called on stakeholders in revenue mobilsation to simplify the tax filing processes and procedures for taxpayers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cIf we simplify, trade revenues will be enhanced, and this will ensure more import and export of commodities and also paying of taxes will be done voluntarily,\u201d he noted.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He, therefore, urged institutions under the GRA to critically examine their activities to ensure a more friendly system that helped in the collection of taxes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Speaking at the 2022 GRA Customs Division\u2019s Management Retreat in Kumasi, Mr Owusu-Amoah indicated that some of those complicated procedures created gaps, which rendered tax filing and revenue mobilisation counterproductive.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cEven though the GRA has created detailed platforms for payment of taxes, there are still people that had challenges as far as filing taxes was concerned, therefore it is important to find ways of simplifying it,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said the importance of tax filing simplification could not be overemphasised in all aspects of taxes, cutting across preventive, trade facilitation and revenue mobilisation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The GRA Commissioner General charged the Customs Division and the Domestic Tax Revenue Division (DRTD) to look for opportunities in finding individuals to bring in high value transactions, equipment or cars that generated the necessary revenue.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Touching on monitoring, he advised the officers to constantly scrutinise and find effective ways of improving on evaluations to get the accurate values for a payer item under consideration.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He expressed confidence that the GRA would meet its GH\u20b580.2 billion revenue mobilisation target for 2022 if the officers synergised energies to ensure productive work.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Colonel (Rtd) Kwadwo Damoah, the Commissioner of Customs, said Ghana needed a lot of social infrastructure and that could only happen when officers played their role effectively in revenue mobilisation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The Customs Division was, therefore, partnering the DRTD and linking their systems to achieve their set goals, he said.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumasi, Aug. 10, GNA &#8211; Mr Amishaddai Owusu-Amoah, the Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has called on stakeholders in revenue mobilsation to simplify the tax filing processes and procedures for taxpayers. \u201cIf we simplify, trade revenues will be enhanced, and this will ensure more import and export of commodities and also paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5922,624,1612,7155,22947,8359],"class_list":["post-1173314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-filing","tag-gra","tag-lets","tag-processes","tag-simplify","tag-taxpayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}