In opposition to a new tax scheme by the Ghana Revenue Authority that is intended to underpay them, the Ghana Medical Association has threatened to push the government to close down healthcare facilities across the country.

The new tax structure that GRA is implementing will deduct taxes from the money that the association generates, according to GMA President Dr. Frank Serebour.

Since their members have already paid taxes on the wage they deduct their dues from, the Association contends that GRA's request for them to pay these taxes is unreasonable.

Dr. Frank Serebour has therefore threatened to lead the association to an unprecedented nationwide protest if GRA fails to rescind the decision to surcharge them.

Speaking on Pure FM on Saturday, October 15, 2022, Dr. Serebour said this was the first time GRA is calling on the Association to pay such tax since its inception in over six decades.

“We won’t sit down to allow anybody, whether it is a government agency or the government itself, to collapse the association. That will not happen under my watch.”

He stressed that there should have been more dialogue on the taxes by the GRA.

“If anything at all, the first point was engagement. If something like that is going to happen, somebody should be engaging and not write that kind of letter.”