Revenue Authority wants Ghanaians to voluntarily pay gift tax

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gretchy 11 years ago

Are you fukn serious?Hav you thought about those company bossee taking their corrupt funds and abscond to the United Kingdom????

Are you fukn serious?Hav you thought about those company bossee taking their corrupt funds and abscond to the United Kingdom????
Che 11 years ago

Nonsense. Tell the Prez and his corrupt officials to pay tax on the 10% contract money they demand before giving contracts out. In my opinion, the citizenry should not pay a dime. You people think this is democracy. You just ...
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Nonsense. Tell the Prez and his corrupt officials to pay tax on the 10% contract money they demand before giving contracts out. In my opinion, the citizenry should not pay a dime. You people think this is democracy. You just decided to give GhC50,000 out to MPs as rent allowances, what have you done for the nation since taking office. Bullshit. Thieves and greedy people.
Richyoung Baffour Awuah 11 years ago

Who created this ass and which sane persons have been doing this? The Revenue boss should show their invoice.Living in glass houses and throwing dynamites!

Who created this ass and which sane persons have been doing this? The Revenue boss should show their invoice.Living in glass houses and throwing dynamites!
SOKOTO 11 years ago

Let us be realistic about some things.

Gift Tax is not realistic, unless it involves very huge amount or very high value.

If your uncle buys you a brand new laptop 2,000 Ghana Cedis, for your birthday, do you have to p ...
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Let us be realistic about some things.

Gift Tax is not realistic, unless it involves very huge amount or very high value.

If your uncle buys you a brand new laptop 2,000 Ghana Cedis, for your birthday, do you have to pay tax on that?

If your son abroad, buys you a car, as a gift, do you have to pay gift tax on it?

If the MPs and ministers go round their constituencies, and their given gifts like goats, food crpos like plantain, yams etc, and sometimes cash, will they pay gift tax on them?
DAN 11 years ago

they call it customs duties or vat..When you go to post office or the port they charge you!

they call it customs duties or vat..When you go to post office or the port they charge you!
OH GHFUO, WHY SO PRIMITIVE? 11 years ago

INSTEAD OF PUTTING IN PLACE THE NECESSARY AMENITIES TO IMPOSE NATIONAL N REGIONAL TAXES ON THE PPL ON THINGS THEY BUY. LOOK AT THIS FOOLISH SUGGESTION. U HVE TO GIVE THE PPL AN INCENTIVE TO PAY GOODS N SERVICE TAX N FILE THEI ...
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INSTEAD OF PUTTING IN PLACE THE NECESSARY AMENITIES TO IMPOSE NATIONAL N REGIONAL TAXES ON THE PPL ON THINGS THEY BUY. LOOK AT THIS FOOLISH SUGGESTION. U HVE TO GIVE THE PPL AN INCENTIVE TO PAY GOODS N SERVICE TAX N FILE THEIR INCOME TAXES IN GH. WE R NOT SERIOUS....EVERYTHING IS A JOKE IN GH....MANY PPL IN WESTERN NATIONS EVEN TRY TO EVADE PAYING TAXES. THE ONUS IS ON THE GOVT TO GIVE THE PPL REASONS TO PAY THEIR TAXES
YAW 11 years ago

Stop wasting time and update yourself. You better have to strenghten the mechanism of tax collection so that more people pay tax instead of this outmoded idea. You can see foreigner making business without tax but you pretent ...
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Stop wasting time and update yourself. You better have to strenghten the mechanism of tax collection so that more people pay tax instead of this outmoded idea. You can see foreigner making business without tax but you pretent you can haven't seen them. Stop making noise. You are just feeding yourself with your position. This is not only you but almost all the politicians
Foko 11 years ago

foolish talk. After aproving 50,000 and big monies for those we voted to serve us, you are demanding what?

This sounds very stupid to me.

Don't even think about it because the developed countries who take such taxes pa ...
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foolish talk. After aproving 50,000 and big monies for those we voted to serve us, you are demanding what?

This sounds very stupid to me.

Don't even think about it because the developed countries who take such taxes pay welfare benfits and other good services to the citizenry.

As someone rightly said start paying those ten percent you get as bribes and it will be enough to run Ghana.
atadwe 11 years ago

For making such utterances, this lady should be the first person to be sacked by pres JDM.

For making such utterances, this lady should be the first person to be sacked by pres JDM.
fredsaid 11 years ago

You do not have a proper tax recording,collection and payments system in place; you do not collect taxes from foreign companies trading and making money in Ghana, you have no way of reporting anything about taxation in this c ...
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You do not have a proper tax recording,collection and payments system in place; you do not collect taxes from foreign companies trading and making money in Ghana, you have no way of reporting anything about taxation in this country. You spend tax payers' money and the country's resources paying dubious judgement debts to ppl who never had a contract with the government.

Now you are here picking on peanut taxes from those who are giving gifts to their loved ones. What really goes on in the heads of these so called leaders and captains? They do not have a clue about their roles in government. Were they given a job description in the first place to specify their roles as appointe or do they do their work on an adhoc basis; dream up the policies as you go along. This is totally unacceptable and anyone who criticises will in return receive insults from those who less and yet in power.
DAN 11 years ago

In Usa banks send reporting notices out claiming they are telling the IRS how much money you have saved..Of course theives would hide it in foreign countrys like ghana or Switzerland

In Usa banks send reporting notices out claiming they are telling the IRS how much money you have saved..Of course theives would hide it in foreign countrys like ghana or Switzerland
Adama d'Gharty, UK 11 years ago

In Ghana today it looks the rich and the very well-to-do are most likely to evade taxation on their annual earnings. While the Ghana Revenue Authority makes it a point to go chasing after lower earners in petty jobs they howe ...
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In Ghana today it looks the rich and the very well-to-do are most likely to evade taxation on their annual earnings. While the Ghana Revenue Authority makes it a point to go chasing after lower earners in petty jobs they however, innocently give way for the middle-income and top-class group of earners to run away with income tax avoidance. The culprits here are most likely to be MPs or popular high social-climbers in the country.
ADWEN 11 years ago

If The Acting Deputy Commissioner of the GRA, knows why she is occupying the position she is in, she wouldn't have uttered this childish and thoughtless point.
Instead of devising systems and controls to make it difficult fo ...
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If The Acting Deputy Commissioner of the GRA, knows why she is occupying the position she is in, she wouldn't have uttered this childish and thoughtless point.
Instead of devising systems and controls to make it difficult for people to avoid and or reduce taxes, she is rather begging people to pay taxes on things which are not important considering the stage of the country's level of development and the standard of living of the people.
Ghana is not developing people its leaders don't have the ideas (brain software) to come up with ideas, policies, programmes, systems, and controls to implement to address the challenges faced by the country.
My observation with Ghanaians from top-down is that we are comfortable describing problems but we don'put forward ideas, systems and steps to solve those problems.
Hence, peole like the Acting Deputy Commissioner, are offered jobs that they cannot perform in. Most people in positions of power or influence in Ghana are there not because of their achievements but by virtue of their titles or job descriptions.
A case in point the nominated finance, his credential is, he was (by appointment), a deputy finance minister, a member (by virtue of his position) of the monetary policy committee of the Bank of Ghana and was involved (level of involvement unclear) in the introduction of VAT in Ghana.
The issue is, what were his achievements which qualies him or her for the job?
EZEKIEL 11 years ago

We are never given a breakdown of what the REGULAR TAXES are used for..APART from the INCREMENT of the Mps salaries!
If you USE the National REVENUE WISELY, nobody will complain BUT that's NOT the case!

We are never given a breakdown of what the REGULAR TAXES are used for..APART from the INCREMENT of the Mps salaries!
If you USE the National REVENUE WISELY, nobody will complain BUT that's NOT the case!
Kman 11 years ago

It just simply is choking. If Ghanaians believed taxes were used for the benefit of the nation, they would feel morally obliged to pay their taxes dutifully. As it is Woyome and co still chokes.

It just simply is choking. If Ghanaians believed taxes were used for the benefit of the nation, they would feel morally obliged to pay their taxes dutifully. As it is Woyome and co still chokes.
BB 11 years ago

USE THE THE CANADIAN SYSTEM BECAUSE THE HEAD OF BANK OF CANADA IS GOING TOBE GOVERNOR OF BANK OF ENGLAND BECAUSE GOOD CANADIAN FISCAL. EUROPEANS DON'T KNOW CRAP. IT CONTINUE TO SHOW ESPECIALLY ENGLAND WE FOLLOW ALL THESE YEAR ...
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USE THE THE CANADIAN SYSTEM BECAUSE THE HEAD OF BANK OF CANADA IS GOING TOBE GOVERNOR OF BANK OF ENGLAND BECAUSE GOOD CANADIAN FISCAL. EUROPEANS DON'T KNOW CRAP. IT CONTINUE TO SHOW ESPECIALLY ENGLAND WE FOLLOW ALL THESE YEARS BOLONY.
GHANA SHOULD COMPARE ALL APPLES.
Koku Anyi 11 years ago

Stupid,if the Government cannot make good laws to track the monies coming from major taxation tools, who else will sacrify more money for those selfish tax collectors to be much richer? If Ghana needs money, make good laws to ...
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Stupid,if the Government cannot make good laws to track the monies coming from major taxation tools, who else will sacrify more money for those selfish tax collectors to be much richer? If Ghana needs money, make good laws to retrive it from selfish employees of CEPS.
JAL 11 years ago

They should just go to the politicians and start collecting taxes on the freebies they enjoy at our expense. How about tax on 50,000 GHS rent allowance for MPs?

They should just go to the politicians and start collecting taxes on the freebies they enjoy at our expense. How about tax on 50,000 GHS rent allowance for MPs?
Lawrence 11 years ago

Ghana is not a poor country or need a help from another Country, BUT SIMPLE BECAUSE BAD LEADERS OR THE AUTHORITY ARE NOT HONEST, the funny thing is that, people who are ENTRUSTED TO STATE COFFERS ARE GREEDY, THIEVES, LIARS, A ...
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Ghana is not a poor country or need a help from another Country, BUT SIMPLE BECAUSE BAD LEADERS OR THE AUTHORITY ARE NOT HONEST, the funny thing is that, people who are ENTRUSTED TO STATE COFFERS ARE GREEDY, THIEVES, LIARS, AND CORRUPT, so on my own OPINION, On less we all have to change, understand that this is our country, so we do it good for our self, Make the LAWS AND RESPECT THE LAWS, EVERYBODY TO BE UNDER MICROSCOPE 24/7, More especially, the Authorities, because most of the TAX collected goes to individuals pocket and its know in the hold country, very bad and sad,
Asem Pa Asa 11 years ago

If the GRA is serious, let them just show us evidence and the money of what they have been able to collect as income taxes from the traders in Makola Market, Kumasi Central Market and street vendors at Kumasi Kejetia. Once th ...
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If the GRA is serious, let them just show us evidence and the money of what they have been able to collect as income taxes from the traders in Makola Market, Kumasi Central Market and street vendors at Kumasi Kejetia. Once that is done, then I will walk into the GRA office in Kumasi and pay all the gift taxes on the gifts I have ever received since I was born.
What do u want my name for 11 years ago

Mpee what a loose talk by a confused amamoo, God gave me strenth protection and you what did you gave me nothing i pay for my light bill water bill and you still want to tax me for my gestures may God punish those who tax tit ...
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Mpee what a loose talk by a confused amamoo, God gave me strenth protection and you what did you gave me nothing i pay for my light bill water bill and you still want to tax me for my gestures may God punish those who tax tithe
Ghana 11 years ago

Thunder fire your mouth

Thunder fire your mouth
pnokio 11 years ago

Greedy monsters

Greedy monsters
Nii 11 years ago

Pay tax for what ? What have the government done with the ones we been paying everyday ? More taxes so the ministers can send all the children to schools abroad,buy more V8 vehicles ? Ghanaian leaders are nothing but nation l ...
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Pay tax for what ? What have the government done with the ones we been paying everyday ? More taxes so the ministers can send all the children to schools abroad,buy more V8 vehicles ? Ghanaian leaders are nothing but nation looters . About 70% of Ghanaians dont have clean water to drink whiles the so called MP's driving around this expensive trucks .This greedy people will face the gun one day . Another Rawlings will soon come .
Proper Nii Ga 11 years ago

Anyone who collects or receive taxes in Ghana is extortionist and corrupt and the politicians are the worse corrupt and worse Gift receivers in Ghana. With the way the big men steal and abuse their offices in Ghana, no averag ...
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Anyone who collects or receive taxes in Ghana is extortionist and corrupt and the politicians are the worse corrupt and worse Gift receivers in Ghana. With the way the big men steal and abuse their offices in Ghana, no average Ghanaian should pay tax at all.
DAN 11 years ago

Make sure Mp's are paying income tax..Too much tax burden is placed on Ghanians for the little they get in return!

Make sure Mp's are paying income tax..Too much tax burden is placed on Ghanians for the little they get in return!
Alert 11 years ago

It is the law that binds all to pay tax on gifts, but it is crazy. Find out from the artisans (masons carpenters etc; etc;) how much the charge for their service without paying tax. Minig company employess and those in the go ...
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It is the law that binds all to pay tax on gifts, but it is crazy. Find out from the artisans (masons carpenters etc; etc;) how much the charge for their service without paying tax. Minig company employess and those in the govt/other establishments are slapped with heavy taxes on our pay; won't it be stupidiy voluntarily calling you to come and tax whatever gift I may receive? Nonsense

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