Accra, November 1, 2017//-The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday November 1, 2017 launched a comprehensive awareness campaign to deepen tax education in the country.
The campaign dubbed ‘#Our taxes our future’ aims at increasing revenue collection for the government to enable its embark on development projects in the West African country.
The campaign which supposed to last over five months will see officials of the GRA at the headquarters, regional and district levels go to homes, schools, churches, mosques, among others to educate the people on the significance of paying taxies.
The national revenue collection agency will also use social media and the traditional media to drum home the tax education campaign during the people.
GRA therefore called on the general public to take advantage of the exercise to seek information on all tax issues. “People who have not registered for tax or have outstanding tax liability to make arrangement and comply with obligations,” senior officials of GRA told journalists yesterday.
With an estimated population of 27 million in Ghana, only about 1.2 million taxpayers are registered with the GRA. This means that more than 20 million do not pay taxes in the country.
African Eye Report