The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Anthony Sarpong, has disclosed that the Authority’s newly introduced Publican AI system is already delivering significant gains in domestic revenue mobilisation just months after its rollout.
Speaking at the 10th Ghana CEO Summit in Accra on Thursday, May 28, Mr. Sarpong described the early performance of the artificial intelligence-driven system as “amazing and promising,” revealing that the technology helped generate an additional GH¢1 billion in customs revenue in April alone.
According to him, the initiative forms part of the GRA’s broader efforts to use technology to improve efficiency, reduce human interference in tax assessments, and ensure fairness in revenue collection processes.
“We want to claim that GRA is the first public institution to use AI across the board, affecting many businesses. The purpose is to reduce human discretion, make faster assessment, create a fairer basis for all import and import assessment,” he stated.
Mr. Sarpong explained that the AI-powered system is helping the Authority strengthen customs operations while plugging revenue leakages that have long affected tax administration.
“Indeed the results for the first two months of deploying the AI is amazing and promising. In the month of April alone we added GHS1 billion to our revenue generation for customs,” he disclosed.
He further indicated that the Authority is on track to record another strong performance in May, with preliminary figures already pointing to another major increase in revenue.
“We are on course in the month of May and the results as of yesterday is showing that we are going beyond GHS1 billion for the month of May,” he added.
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