Some key professionals both in the public and private sector have been advised against creating the enabling environment for tax fraud to thrive.
These professionals according to Mr. Benaiah Nii Addo, a Tax Expert had over the years used their knowledge to swerve the tax systems in-country aiding evasion or undue avoidance and thus dwindling government purse for effective development.
Mr. Addo, said in a two-day residential training on Tax Development, illicit financial flows and the Role of Journalists organised by Media Foundation for West Africa with the help like-minded international organisations.
He mentioned some professionals like accountant, lawyers, auditors, tax advisers, foreign exchange traders, dealers in metals and stones, real estate agents Politically Exposed Persons, among others.
The Tax Expert also a member of the Tax Justice Network of Ghana called on these professionals to be more law abiding and Patriotic by leading their clients and followers in paying the rights form taxes to the state.
Taxes, both direct or indirect are a form of revenue poll for government to undertake development projects in every given society and so the willingness on the part of citizenry to fulfil their civic mandate of contributing genuinely to state coffers was critical.
Mr. Addo said there were also pragmatic means by which government could cut down on the excesses in the Tax regime through appropriate digital infrastructure.
This he explained would help in real time monitoring and calculating of real figures for individuals and companies.
“Monitoring devices are a sure bet in the fight against Tax infringement,” he added.
GNA
Kenneth Odeng Adade
27 May 2025
