{"id":1222972,"date":"2022-10-12T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/sack-gra-boss-for-poor-approach-in-collecting-taxes-in-ashanti-region-owusu-bempah\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:28:04","slug":"sack-gra-boss-for-poor-approach-in-collecting-taxes-in-ashanti-region-owusu-bempah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/sack-gra-boss-for-poor-approach-in-collecting-taxes-in-ashanti-region-owusu-bempah\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack GRA Boss for poor approach in collecting taxes in Ashanti Region &#8211; Owusu-Bempah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Owusu Bempah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Owusu-Bempah-696x466.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Owusu-Bempah-696x466.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Owusu Bempah\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>A Deputy Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah, has called for the dismissal of the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) for what he believes is a poor approach to collecting taxes especially in the Ashanti Region, the stronghold of the NPP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He criticized the GRA Boss for not organizing a stakeholder consultation prior to introducing the approach to collecting taxes in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The GRA has positioned its officers at shops, restaurants, and other businesses in the Ashanti region to take details of sales for tax purposes.<\/p>\n<p>This has resulted in shops shutting down to protest against the GRA\u2019s action.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Owusu-Bempah said in a writeup that \u201cWhat is his motivation for doing this in the Ashanti Region which is the stronghold of the NPP? Who is behind him?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t put system in place, no consultation done before you roll out this, the man should be sacked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Deputy Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah, has called for the dismissal of the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) for what he believes is a poor approach to collecting taxes especially in the Ashanti Region, the stronghold of the NPP. He criticized the GRA Boss for not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3177,2960,566,1837,624,24584,184,2114,394,1007],"class_list":["post-1222972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-approach","tag-ashanti","tag-boss","tag-collecting","tag-gra","tag-owusubempah","tag-poor","tag-region","tag-sack","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222972","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=1222972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}