NCCE INTENSIFIES TAX EDUCATION IN BUILSA NORTH DISTRICT APRIL, 2018
The Builsa North District office of
the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has completed its second
phase of public education campaigns on tax compliance.
The campaigns which mainly targeted
the informal sector took the NCCE team to major market centres across the
district during which several women were reached with the message.
This move by the NCCE formed part
of the Ghana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) efforts to generate adequate revenues in
order to help Government finance the national budget as well as reduce
over-reliance on foreign donors for Ghana’s development needs.
The Acting District Director of the
NCCE, Mr. Jeffrey Adda, disclosed to the ISD that, the GRA after realising
through surveys that many Ghanaians and majority of the business community were
not captured by the tax net, contracted the NCCE to undertake the public tax
education exercise. He further disclosed that, his outfit carried out the first
phase of the campaigns in the last quarter of 2017 and that, it was based on a
satisfactory outcome that the GRA offered them the second assignment.
Mr. Adda said his office completed
the second phase of the campaigns a few days ago and gave the assurance that
the tax education message has actually gotten to the grass roots. According to
him, tax payment was a civic responsibility of every Ghanaian, adding that
Ghanaians should feel proud to honour their tax obligation and persuade their
neighbours to do same.
He said apart from the targeted
market women and shop owners, the NCCE also had meaningful engagements with
various trade associations and business groups, some Faith Based Organisations
including churches and mosques, artisans, Women Groups and other entrepreneurs
in Sandema and its environs.
Mr. Adda advised businesses to
register with the GRA office and get abreast of the appropriate taxes they were
supposed to pay. He said regular payment of taxes was far better than delaying
to pay or the total evasion of taxes since one might suffer stiffer financial
penalties when eventually caught.
He noted that governments around
the world relied massively on taxation to develop their economies and that
Ghana as a sovereign nation, could not afford to lag behind.
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