This is because they believe it was one major way of ensuring free, fair and transparent elections in 2012.
This was contained in a communiqué signed by 10 representatives of the various groups at the end of a seminar at Wa.
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The idea for the identification cards was to give businesses TIN under the E-government project to make tax collecting and payment easy and also to prevent multiple registrations as well as to bring onboard individuals who avoid tax.
To achieve this, the exercise has been divided into three different categories, which clients could register or re-register with the 11 pilot sites of GRA or GRD head office, after which they would be given new Tax Identification Number (TIN) and new certificate.
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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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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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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.