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.
Read more: Ghana Revenue Authority to use picture ID numbers as tax identification numbers
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.
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’.
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.
Read more: GH: Government would complete digital switchover ahead of 2014 deadline – Haruna Iddrisu
The 50,000 dollars project is a three- country Rotary Club initiative to broaden the knowledge base of medical practitioners and allied health professionals.
The project would provide interaction between healthcare providers in rural and resource poor areas where one doctor serves a population of 80,000, with their counterparts in advanced and developed countries, says D. Godfrey Bacheyie, Local Physician and Project Leader.
Read more: GH: Rotary Club unveils Telehealth Project in Jirapa