The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will intensify the special reforms, initiatives and interventions to be implemented to boost the country's revenue generation and build a robust GRA, the Commissioner of the GRA-Cus…
Africa Hockey Federation Club Championship title holders, Royal Ladies of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), are eyeing a successful title defence at the next competition scheduled for Port Said, Egypt, from January 17 to 29, 2025.
As four-…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has held a tax sensitisation programme for traders at the Tema Community One Market on the need to promptly file their monthly tax returns for accountability.
The staff interacted with the market women …
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has organised a one-day tax sensitisation programme for traders and drivers at the Tema Community one main lorry station to help the public understand the importance of paying their taxes.
The programme…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has urged owners of uncustomed vehicles to take advantage of the annual tax amnesty policy to register and pay proper duties on such vehicles before September 30, 2024.
The authority said if the owners …
Some staff of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) under the Customs Division have embarked on a health and fitness walk to promote healthy living as they prepare for the second half of the year.
The walk, organised by the welfare associ…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced its intention to begin a crackdown on tax defaulters after June 21, 2024, in accordance with Section 80 of the Revenue Administration Act, 2016 (Act 915), which considers non-compliance w…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has dismissed rumours that piloting its electronic Value Added Tax (e-VAT) invoicing system has led to the state losing billions in revenue.
GRA clarified that the system’s piloting has rather led t…
The Ghana Revenue Authority Workers Union (GRAWU) has underscored the need for a national dialogue on tax culture to promote a shift in tax payment among Ghanaians.
The union's call is expected to spark a broader conversation on the…
The Domestic Tax Revenue Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has educated tax payers within the Kinbu-Sub enclaves on its new online payment platform.
The tax payers were also sensitised to promptly file their monthly tax returns to…
The first batch of drugs for the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is expected to leave the Tema Port by the close of the week.
In all, 12 bills of lading of the pharmaceutical products donated by the Global Fund which …
Finance Minister Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam has commended the revenue mobilization efforts of Ghana Revenue Authority officials at the Tema Port.
In a recent visit to the port, which forms part of a broader economic strategy aimed at curtai…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has urged taxpayers who feel harassed by its officers to report to their respective tax offices for resolution.
Concerns have arisen regarding alleged harassment by some tax officers when collecting…
The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has launched an action plan to tackle inefficiencies in the import-export processes at Ghana’s ports and land borders.
Among other things, the action plan include the introducti…
Mohammed Amin Adam, the newly appointed Finance Minister, has urged the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to work hard to achieve its financial targets for the fiscal year 2024.
He stressed that the GRA should adhere to a so…
Management of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has urged the public to disregard a false publication on GRA's auctioning of COCOBOD's chemicals and fertilizers.
The article alleged that Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) was unable to pay imp…
The Ghana Revenue Authority, Customs Division embarked on a health walk on Saturday to mark International Customs Day.
The staff of the Authority started the walk from its branch at Circle through Awudome Street to the Korle-Bu stretch …
The High Court in Accra, Commercial Division has dismissed a GH¢39.7 million claim made by Magnate Technology and Services against the Ghana Revenue Authority for breach of agreement.
The amount, the company said, would have been revenu…
The Ghana Revenue Authority says it is ready to support companies in difficulties to revive their operations to be able to meet their tax obligations to the state and create employment for Ghanaians.
Dr Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, the Comm…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it will take further action against SOL Cement, the company closed down for evading taxes amounting to GH¢700 million, if it fails to pay 40 per cent of its debt within 30 days.
According to Comm…
The Eastern Corridor Monitoring Team of the Ghana Revenue Authority has impounded 11, 200 full pieces of imitation wax prints concealed in an assorted merchandise in a 40-footer container.
Out of the 11,200 prints valued at 1.3 million …
Chinese cement manufacturing firm Sol Cement has been closed by officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority for tax default amounting to more than GH¢700 million.
The company was cited for the VAT infraction including corporate income …
The Tema Community 9 Taxpayer Service Centre (TSC) of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has adjudged Hapag-Lloyd Ghana Ltd, a shipping company as the Overall Best Taxpayer for the 2020 to 2022 years of assessment.
A Citation of Honour…
The government must accelerate its digitalisation drive to combat illicit financial flows and widen the tax net, an Assistant Commissioner of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Dominic Naab, has said.
He said the informal nature of th…
Cheng Gong Ghana Limited, dealers in water factory and treatment machinery, was locked up by a taskforce of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) for selectively issuing Value Added Tax (VAT) invoices to clients.
The company also failed to…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has completed billing over 10.12 million properties identified across the country for the purpose of property rate collection.
This means that coverage has increased by 8.82 million more properties, up …
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), compliance and enforcement unit, says the non-issuance of Valued Added Tax (VAT) invoice is a criminal offence and can lead to prosecution.
The Authority said tax defaulters could be charged under sect…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has invited the managers of 11 companies in East Legon to assist in investigations pertaining the non-issuance and selective issuance of VAT receipts as part of efforts to ensure voluntary compliance of ta…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has arrested 10 managers of some supermarkets and general merchandise shops in the Awoshie-Anyah Market and Ablekuma enclave in the Greater Accra Region for not complying with Value Added Tax (VAT) regu…
Rev. Dr Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoahthe Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has been named an outstanding public sector leader for the second time.
He was honoured with 14 other top managers of public institutions in t…
Tip-offs from the public are playing a major role in the identification of businesses that are flouting the tax laws across the country, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has said.
The Accra Central Area Enforcement Manager of the GRA…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) compliance and enforcement unit has closed down four businesses for failure to issue Value Added Tax (VAT) invoices of the Authority.
The GRA expects that all suppliers of taxable items…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is hoping to rake in some GH¢400 million from the new gaming tax.
The new tax seeks to charge 10 percent tax on bet and lotto wins.
Speaking to Citi News, a member of the Gaming Com…
Value Added Tax (VAT) collections by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) from January and May this year amounted to GH¢1.2 billion.
This represent a 92.4 per cent increase of the GH¢649.93 million collected within the same period last yea…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has commenced the implementation of the application of the tax laws of lottery operators across the country.
Effective yesterday, all lottery operators commenced withholding 10 per cent of winnings an…
A task force from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has arrested managers and staff of three hotels and a supermarket in Accra for alleged VAT tax infractions.
The task force visited the hotels and the shop unannounced as part of an e…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has warned that it will punish any lottery company or betting company that refuses to deduct a 10% withholding tax on winnings.
The GRA will begin implementing the withholding tax on August 15, 2023. Th…
Ghana Revenue Authority has outdoored its choir named the Revenue Voices and unveiled new instruments to support activities.
The choir comprises personnel of the various departments of the Authority with interest in singing to praise Go…
The Deputy Ashanti Regional Commander, Customs Division, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Evans Teye Agbozo, has cautioned importers and exporter against the practice of bypassing systems to avoid paying all required duties.
Mr. Agbozo…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is warning the public against an imposter by the name name of Justice Mensah, who is going round doing fake tax registration and collection in Accra.
In a public notice, signed by the Commissioner-Gener…
Officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have seized 12,000 cartons of drinks with no tax stamps from importers.
This was made known to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) when the Excise Unit of GRA embarked on a check op…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has found out that more than 10 million Ghana Card holders whose information has been migrated to its system are not registered as taxpayers.
Out of the 15.99 million Ghana Card records migrated from …
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has described as untrue suggestions by the Chamber for Local Governance (ChaLOG) in a statement on May 31, 2023, that property rates can only be collected by the District.
It said Section 124 of Act 936…
Three shop owners at Achimota, a suburb in Accra, have been apprehended for flouting tax laws of Ghana.
The move is a continuation of the GRA’s exercise to have businesses comply with the VAT issuance regime as a civil r…
With pressure mounting on the government to double up its domestic revenue generation efforts, the tax collecting agency is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that businesses not captured in the tax net are enrolled.
Consequently, th…
The Ghana Revenue Authority has touted the successes of its ongoing VAT invigilation exercise that it has embarked on.
The exercise which began in the last quarter of 2022, is a demonstration of one of the many tools to check tax compli…
Officials of the Enforcement Units of the Ghana Revenue Authority has invited some shop owners for questioning as part of its efforts to ensure voluntary Value Added Tax (VAT) compliance.
The GRA expects that all suppliers of taxable it…
The Intelligence Unit of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has cautioned importers and declarants of cargoes to desist from under-declaring, mis-describing, devaluing weight, and under-invoicing as the Unit is tracking such activities.
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Government’s three new taxes to improve its badly needed cash flow makes tax evasion and avoidance imminent, tax analysts have cautioned.
The experts strongly believe that the Excise Duty (Amendment); Income Tax (Amendment); and the …
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says there are many tax reliefs for Ghanaians who pay and file their tax returns.
Mr Lawrence Hotsonyame, the Assistant Commissioner, in charge of Training and Development Department, GRA, said the coun…
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