Head of the Task Force for Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Henry Bradford Sam said that the GLO has not paid its taxes since 10th June 2016.
The offices of telecom operator, GLO has been closed down by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) over unpaid taxes.
The GRA indicated that GLO has not paid taxes to the amount of GHS11, 884,396.89 million.
Head of the Task Force Henry Bradford Sam told Accra-based Citi FM that the company has not paid its taxes since 10th June 2016.
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The telecom operator’s offices at the Industrial area and Spintex Road were shut down on Tuesday (July 25, 2017) by a GRA task force.
In an exercise to close down companies that have defaulted in their tax obligation two other companies—Ohene Media and Kingsman Trading Company suffered a similar fate as Glo for owing GHS367,586.37 and GHS42016566.58 respectively.
Sam said the GRA will clamp down on all companies flouting the GRA Act to raise the needed revenue for national development.
"These businesses have being served with several notices to voluntarily disclose and pay their taxes, lawful taxes that they have collected from you and me, but they have failed to make good their indebtedness, and in conformity with section 83 of the Revenue Administration Act, the Commissioner General has exercised his mandate to collect and recover, the full amount due, in terms of this taxes, duties and penalties.”
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He said the GRA had reminded these companies on countless occasions but to no avail.
“The time we have given them is between six months and one year. We just don’t get up and execute a distress order, we go through a process, we issue a demand notice, if the taxpayer fails to pay by the demand notice, we issue final demand notice, sometimes personal visits, all in an attempt to elicit voluntary compliance, but when these attempts fail then we crack the whip.”
“We will resort to the relevant section of the law to exact payment of the taxes due from them,” he added.
Head of the Task Force for Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Henry Bradford Sam said that the GLO has not paid its taxes since 10th June 2016. Read Full Story
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