{"id":3826,"date":"2024-08-28T01:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2024-08-28T01:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:36:24","slug":"the-ghana-revenue-authority-gra-announces-a-tax-amnesty-for-vehicle-owners-who-have-failed-to-pay-their-taxes-allowing-them-to-settle-their-debts-by-september-30-without-incurring-additional-penalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3826","title":{"rendered":"The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) announces a tax amnesty for vehicle owners who have failed to pay their taxes, allowing them to settle their debts by September 30 without incurring additional penalties."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/63880556.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3827\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ghana Revenue Authority<\/a>\u00a0(GRA) has announced an amnesty for vehicle tax evaders who smuggled vehicles into the country using unapproved routes.<br><br>According to the GRA, individuals have until September 30 to take advantage of this amnesty.<br><br>Speaking to members of the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC) on the sidelines of a GRA media engagement as part of GRA\u2019s Tax Education Month, Justice Njornan Magah, Supervisor of the Vehicle Valuation Unit at the Customs Head Office, said, \u201cWe encourage people to comply with the tax laws. Every year, GRA declares a tax amnesty, and this year is no different. GRA wants those who have not complied with the tax laws and have vehicles in the country, whether they came through approved routes using the temporary importation regime\u2014which allows them to stay for 90 days\u2014or they smuggled them through unapproved routes, to come forward. They can declare that they have these vehicles and are not paying taxes on them. We will do the assessment\u2014only the vehicle duty, VAT, and other taxes; penalties will be waived. That is what the amnesty does.\u201d<br><br>He added that if individuals fail to comply and the GRA embarks on nationwide road surveillance starting October 1, 2024, they would have to pay a 300% penalty on the original duty.<br><br>\u201cOur operations team will inspect such vehicles using diagnostic machines that can detect unpaid duties or tampered chassis numbers. If discrepancies are found, including tampered vehicle details, a 300% penalty on the original duty may be imposed for non-compliance.\u201d<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Ghana Revenue Authority\u00a0(GRA) has announced an amnesty for vehicle tax evaders who smuggled vehicles into the country using unapproved routes. According to the GRA, individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3828,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/3828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}