30th August 2023 5:22:13 PM
2 mins readThe Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has apprehended ten managers of various supermarkets and general merchandise stores located within the Awoshie-Anyah Market and Ablekuma area in the Greater Accra Region. The arrests were made due to the managers' failure to adhere to Value Added Tax (VAT) regulations.
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An unannounced task force from the authority conducted a surprise visit to the shops following prior undercover visits by mystery shoppers. These visits were aimed at confirming that the shop owners were not adhering to the legal requirements.
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The shops visited included the Kelon Mall, Tiealet Wholesale and Brigail Enterprise, all at Ablekuma.
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At Awoshie-Anyah Market, the entities closed down for either failing to issue VAT invoices or the selective issuance of the VAT invoice were VKand T Trading Enterprise, Freemago Enterprise, Molla Enterprise, Delcam FB Stationery, Abi Ventures, Jomulet Enterprises and Yemez Ventures.
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Speaking to journalists after the exercise yesterday, the Assistant Commissioner of GRA and Head of the Accra Central Enforcement Unit, Joseph Annan, explained that the exercise was part of efforts by the authority to promote voluntary tax compliance and ensure compliance among small and medium-sized businesses.
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He said GRA was also carrying out a similar exercise that would target businesses that operated in the next markets to ensure they were complying with the laws.
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Also, Mr Annan said business owners who had been arrested in the past for non-compliance would be revisited to find out if they were now complying.
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"If we find out that they are not complying then we will classify them as recalcitrant.
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We dealt with them leniently when we found them to be non-compliant for the first time but if for the second time we find out that nothing has changed them, we won't be friendly at all," he said.
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Additionally, Mr Annan said "for those of you who declared profits but failed to pay to the authority, we will also come after you."
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