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The National Youth Organiser of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye popularly known as Nana B has taken on the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) for stationing its officers at shops, restaurants, and other businesses to record sales of products for tax purposes.<\/p>\n
He argued that the strategy would have been justified only if it was targeted at businesses that ample evidence shows have been evading or under-declaring their taxes<\/p>\n
The NPP National Youth Organiser in a statement said the \u201cwidespread approach of stationing revenue officers at businesses is counterproductive, oppressive, repressive, and suppressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not in normal times \u2013 businesses and individuals are bearing the brunt of the twin global crisis and their concomitant economic agony \u2013 and the least expected from GRA is to police traders whom no tax evasion findings have been made against.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this day of technology, GRA should adopt welcoming and pleasant ways of revenue collection strategy that engenders revenue assurance. This strategy is weak and lame since Revenue Officers stationed at these shops and businesses can be compromised to aid owners to evade or under-declare their taxes. GRA should rather strive to reduce human contact in revenue collection and employ technological solutions to take taxes from businesses,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In his view, the Public Relations unit of GRA is dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaying taxes is not a pleasant thing and for that matter, a responsive PR approach must be adopted to educate the tax-paying population about their programmes and activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
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