Rev. Dr Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah — Commissioner-General of the GRA
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.
The tax
authority has been able to connect 3.08 million of its current 5.74 million TIN
numbers to the Ghana Cards as taxpayers out of the 15.99 million Ghana Card
entries that were moved from the National Identification Authority (NIA)
database onto the GRA database.
2.66 million
current taxpayers are left out since their information for their Ghana Cards
could not be connected.
According to
Rev. Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, Commissioner-General of the GRA, the
authority had more than 5.74 million TIN data already in existence, but only
3.08 million of those could be linked with the records it got from the NIA,
leaving 2.66 million without TIN records.
The
mismatched TIN records have been given to the designated Taxpayer Service
Centers for the required compliance tasks, he added.
Context
The Personal Identification Number on the Ghana Card (Ghana Card PIN) is to replace Taxpayers Identification Numbers (TINs) of persons for tax identification purposes in accordance with the government's policy on the adoption of a unique identifier for all taxpayers.
Missing TINs
The
Commissioner-General of the GRA responded to inquiries from the Daily Graphic
for an update on some of the most important interventions of the revenue
governing body by stating that the authority had more than 5.74 million TIN
records already in existence, but that only 3.08 million of those records could
be matched with the records it received from the NIA, leaving 2.66 million
unmatched with TIN records.
Source:markneswin.blogspot.com
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