By Fred SARPONG
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), mandated to regulate the activities of all revenue agencies and also supervise the revenue mobilization in the country, has outdoored its official logo, indicating the vision of the authority.
The authority is a modern tax administration with visionary leadership that ensures fair and adequate revenue mobilization.
With the passage of the GRA Act 2009, Act 791 in December 2009, the authority came into existence to replace the three revenue agencies, which are Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Value Added Tax (VAT) Services, as well as the law of Revenue Agency Governing Board (RAGB).
The logo is made up of golden eagles, cowry, scale and colours of blue, yellow and green on the banner.
The golden eagles represent a strong and visionary leadership with relentless determination to optimize tax revenue, while keeping a watchful eye on non-compliant taxpayers.
The cowry represents national revenue. The scale with the cowries defines the authority’s collective resolve to be fair, equitable and firm in the delivery of service to its clients.
The colour “Blue” signifies the sky being the limit of the authority’s effort at revenue mobilization and “Yellow” denotes the wealth of the nation from which revenue is mobilized, while the “Green” banner represents a sense of renewal, self control and harmony in GRA.
George Blankson, the Commissioner General of GRA, said the authority is making sure to achieve a fully integrated and modernized revenue administration.
“We recognize the challenges of this enormous responsibility and are working assiduously towards the establishment of an integrated revenue authority that functions seamlessly as a cohesive modern revenue administration,” said Blankson.
To achieve integration of domestic tax revenue on functional lines and improve service delivery, Blankson indicated that segmentation of taxpayers into large, medium and small is underway.
He announced that the existing Large Taxpayer Unit would be transformed into a modern Large Taxpayer Office (LTO).
BusinessWeek learnt that 12 pilot offices and sites have been identified and are being prepared for Medium Taxpayer Offices (MTOs) and Small Taxpayer Offices (STOs).
“This exercise will clearly define our approach to and relationship with our customers,” said the Commissioner General.
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), mandated to regulate the activities of all revenue agencies and also supervise the revenue mobilization in the country, has outdoored its official logo, indicating the vision of the authority.
The authority is a modern tax administration with visionary leadership that ensures fair and adequate revenue mobilization.
With the passage of the GRA Act 2009, Act 791 in December 2009, the authority came into existence to replace the three revenue agencies, which are Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Value Added Tax (VAT) Services, as well as the law of Revenue Agency Governing Board (RAGB).
The logo is made up of golden eagles, cowry, scale and colours of blue, yellow and green on the banner.
The golden eagles represent a strong and visionary leadership with relentless determination to optimize tax revenue, while keeping a watchful eye on non-compliant taxpayers.
The cowry represents national revenue. The scale with the cowries defines the authority’s collective resolve to be fair, equitable and firm in the delivery of service to its clients.
The colour “Blue” signifies the sky being the limit of the authority’s effort at revenue mobilization and “Yellow” denotes the wealth of the nation from which revenue is mobilized, while the “Green” banner represents a sense of renewal, self control and harmony in GRA.
George Blankson, the Commissioner General of GRA, said the authority is making sure to achieve a fully integrated and modernized revenue administration.
“We recognize the challenges of this enormous responsibility and are working assiduously towards the establishment of an integrated revenue authority that functions seamlessly as a cohesive modern revenue administration,” said Blankson.
To achieve integration of domestic tax revenue on functional lines and improve service delivery, Blankson indicated that segmentation of taxpayers into large, medium and small is underway.
He announced that the existing Large Taxpayer Unit would be transformed into a modern Large Taxpayer Office (LTO).
BusinessWeek learnt that 12 pilot offices and sites have been identified and are being prepared for Medium Taxpayer Offices (MTOs) and Small Taxpayer Offices (STOs).
“This exercise will clearly define our approach to and relationship with our customers,” said the Commissioner General.
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