The Abossey Okai Spare Part Dealers Association has given the government a two-week deadline to reassess its approach to the Ghana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) VAT compliance policy.
The ultimatum comes after the GRA issued a statement regarding its compliance and invigilation exercise.
The GRA stated in the statement that it would increase its compliance and invigilation measures, including the deployment of extra personnel to markets and other business centers.
The Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association has expressed its dissatisfaction with the GRA’s compliance strategy and has urged the government to intervene promptly.
In an interview with Citi News, the association’s financial secretary, Samuel Omari, indicated that if the government does not change its decision within the next two weeks, they will stage a statewide protest.
“We had an engagement with the GRA at the AMA hall two weeks ago, and we were thinking they would give us the opportunity to tell them that their compliance policy was not going to help us, but they didn’t give us the opportunity. They only told us that they were implementers of the law and that if we had any grievances, we should channel them to Parliament,” Omari said.
“It is disrespectful to have GRA officials come to our shops after our engagement with them, and so we are going to stage a huge demonstration to send a strong signal to the government and the GRA commissioner-general that that compliance approach is neither here nor there.”
