The project which is a public-private partnership is an initiative that is aimed at linking the GRA to the RGD electronically to ensure GRA has access to database of registered business for easy tracking and for tax purposes.
Mr Anthony Minlah, Commissioner of the Support Services Division of GRA, announced at a day’s sensitization seminar for the media on registration and e-registration of taxpayers in Accra on Monday.
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Project Manager for the GRA E-governance Project, Paul Kwakye told Adom News tax collection organisations like the VAT Service, Internal Revenue Service and CEPS used to give businesses tax identification numbers without asking for the picture ID cards of the business owners, but that has created room for people to do multiple registrations and evade tax.
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He said government would pursue in earnest the roll out of a nationwide Digital Terrestrial Television by 2012, adding that the expectation was that the digital switchover would be completed in 2013 ahead of the deadline.
Mr Iddrisu was speaking at the three-day workshop on Digital Switchover and Spectrum Harmonisation in Africa organised by Kemilinks International in collaboration with the National Communications Authority (NCA) in Accra.
This was made known by the Headmistress, Mrs. Matilda R. Appiah, at the school's 20th Anniversary celebration, which was under the theme, 'Maintaining Our Academic and Social Record in the face of Daunting Challenges,' over the weekend in Koforidua.
Apart from the school, arguably the first institution in the country to introduce biometric voting, the Headmistress stressed that the students of the school also access their terminal reports via the internet.
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However, investigations undertaken by The New Statesman suggest that the ruling party, which has still not come to terms with biometric verification, is shifting the responsibility of funding the process to Ghana’s ‘development partners’.