The Ghana Revenue Authority(GRA) has stated that it intends to crack down even harder on companies that are refusing to pay taxes.A posh event and trading center called "De Icon" in East Legon, Accra, had its facilities locked up by authority representatives on Friday, September 16, 2022, for not paying their taxes to the government.

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The goal of the GRA's intervention is to make sure that all tax payments owed to the state are obtained from culpable companies.The team locked up the facility to restrain the owners and customers from doing business until the tax registration process is concluded.<img class="moz-reader-block-img" title="GRA to descend on more tax-evading businesses" src="

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data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-was-processed="true" />Chief Revenue Officer at the office of the Commissioner General, Nathaniel Tetteh told Journalists that the company will be made to comply with the law and pay penalties before it can resume operations.“We have information that this facility has been operating since December 2021 without the necessary tax requirements.

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So our assignment here is to lock the place until the right thing is done”.“We also need some tax documents from the administration, so we can use it to track the business they have done and apply the charges” he told Joy Business.Friday September 16, 2022 operations was part of an ongoing nationwide Valued Added Tax Invigilation exercise by the authority to retrieve some taxes due the state.

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invigilation will continue to embark on mystery shopping exercises across the country to apprehend culprits evading tax.Meanwhile, all efforts to get the managers or the directors of ‘De Icon’ to speak to the media was not successful.

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