Officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in the Ashanti Region have appealed to media practitioners to use their platforms to urge the general public to voluntarily pay their taxes.
Officials are worried about the attitude exhibited by some members of the public who always want to be co-arced before fulfilling their tax obligations.
According to them, the input from the media will help them double their tax collection drive.
Deputy Commissioner of the GRA, Samuel Sakyi Duodo, made the call at an engagement with journalists in the Ashanti Region in Kumasi.
He said taxation was the lifeblood of every economy in the world, and all developed countries relied on taxes to achieve the needed development for the citizenry.
Mr. Duodo stressed that the transformation of the country’s natural resources which will translate in the creation of jobs to the teeming unemployed youth cannot be achieved if the citizenry fail to pay their taxes to the Government.
He also indicated that aid across the world was dwindling, hence there was an urgent need to achieve the Ghana Beyond Aid vision which will not materialize without the payments of taxes.
He therefore called on the media to sensitize the public on the relevance of paying taxes and the benefits they can derive from it.
Ashanti Regional Chairperson of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Kingsley Hope, urged media practitioners to support state institutions like the GRA to deliver on their mandate.
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By: Hafiz Tijani/citinewsroom.com/Ghana