MacDonald Pwawari
Business owners who lost contracts recently due to their inability to provide Tax Identification Numbers (TIN) queued up at the Upper East Regional Office of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) recently to register for the numbers.
Individuals whose application for driving licences, passports and business registration were stalled due to their inability to produce Tax Identification Numbers (TINs) were also there for the TIN numbers.
Manager of the Small Tax Office of the Ghana Revenue Authority in Bolgatanga, MacDonald Pwawari, in an interview with BUSINESS GUIDE, said his outfit would soon set up mobile registration centres to help decentralize the exercise.
He advised members of the public, especially people who do not have tax identification numbers to take advantage of the ongoing registration at the regional office and mobile registration centres.
Under the policy, one has to produce TIN to be able to transact business with government agencies, as well as open bank accounts.
In April, 2018 when the Ghana Revenue Authority launched its ‘Tax Education Week’ in Bolgatanga, Mr Pwawari expressed concern about the slow pace at which existing businesses and individuals in the Upper East Region were registering for their TINs.
He hinted that a total of 40 existing companies, 411 enterprises and 137 organizations operating in the Bolgatanga Municipality do not have TINs.
From Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Bolgatanga