Three facilities’ managers have been turned over by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to the CID Unit of the Ghana Police Station for an investigation into possible tax law violations.
Champion Dishes, a restaurant in Adabraka, Grace Has Found Us, and Celeb’s, all located in Dansoman, were discovered to not be issuing the Commissioner-invoice. General’s
The Ghana News Agency was informed by Mr. Joseph Annan, Area Enforcement Manager of GRA in charge of Accra Central, that they had broken the rules of the Value Added Tax (VAT).
He said the exercise or operations were part of an ongoing nationwide VAT Invigilation
exercise by the authority to retrieve some taxes due the State.
He said the Police would do their investigations, but for them as tax administrators, “we will assess their books and then apply all the penalties and interest that are applicable.”
He said it was an offence not to issue the VAT invoice and the law would take its own course.
Mr Annan said the GRA as part of a nationwide invigilation would continue to embark on mystery shopping exercises across the country to apprehend culprits evading tax.
“We will continue this exercise until our taxpayers do the needful,” he added.
He said the Authority in their auditing process would conduct a preemptive assessment, which meant that they would have to pay immediately, but then they would recommend a full audit to be conducted.
Mr Annan said even though they would audit their books the legal aspect would be handled by the CID, where they would prepare their docket for possible prosecution.