Ghanaians have been exhorted to pay taxes as responsible citizens by Yofi Grant, chief executive of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre.
According to him, Ghanaians have a moral right to certain demands from the government because they pay taxes.
On August 23, 2022, he said in a statement to GhanaWeb on the sidelines of a National Tax Forum: “We need to pay taxes. We can’t hold the government accountable if we don’t pay taxes. Because that is our responsibility as good citizens. That being said, I know we say that government must account for the taxes better.
“Government is responsible for that, but at the end of the day, we need to pay our taxes. Because if we don’t pay our taxes, we don’t have the right to make certain demands from the government,” Yofi Grant stated.
Speakers at the tax forum stated that Ghanaians must pay their taxes to aid developmental projects in the country.
They called on the government to address the loopholes in the tax system instead of imposing more taxes.
We must all pay taxes – Yofi Grant
We must all pay taxes – Yofi Grant