Hon Kojo Oppong Nkrumah – “Media must help in order to convince 33,000 professionals to pay taxes”

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Today at the Graphic Business/Stanbic Bank breakfast meeting, Hon Oppong Nkrumah in his address said that the Ghanaian media should get involved in order to convince some 33,000 professionals to meet their tax obligations. The theme for the occasion was: : “Media and Marketing Communication Post COVID-19: a Catalyst for Africa’s Socio-Economic Resurgence”.

“You have to convince the 33,000 engineers, lawyers, accountants and other professionals who are not paying tax according to the Ghana Revenue Authority, yet, are asking for everything to be fixed that they have to pay their due if we are to rake in the 10% of our GDP and lower our borrowing and you need the help of the marketing-communications professional and the media to succeed at that”. He said.

According to the Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta in an interview with Accra-based Asaase Radio, disclosed that a GRA study reveals 60,000-business people evading taxes in Ghana.

“…We went through the exercise to sort of titrate to see what we’ve got, and we got about 60,000 business people who were not paying taxes. Some 5,000 or 6,000 lawyers are not. Some doctors are not paying income tax so you begin to see all of these professionals, all of us on social media ranting against the government and you later realize that most of these people are not even paying taxes,” he said.

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