Revenue Reset: GRA intensifies efforts to improve tax collection, compliance

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is ramping up its efforts to heighten taxation postulation and guarantee greater compliance, aligning with government’s broader docket to reset the nation’s economy.

In enactment with this, acting Commissioner-General Anthony Kwasi Sarpong has outlined a broad strategy focusing connected broadening the taxation net, achieving an ambitious gross people of GH¢200 cardinal successful 2025 and implementing business-friendly reforms to foster voluntary compliance.

Speaking during an X Space treatment co-hosted by the High Street Journal, IMANI Ghana and NorvanReports connected the taxable ‘Resetting Ghana’s gross mobilisation’, connected Tuesday, May 7, 2025, Mr. Sarpong stressed a request for the gross collector to enactment successful measures that efficaciously mobilise needed gross for government.

“Taxpayers are our customers and we indispensable physique nationalist spot and assurance successful the taxation system. When that happens, we tin mobilise the needed gross to enactment the nation’s reset agenda,” Mr. Sarpong stated.

Broadening the taxation net

A cornerstone of GRA’s renewed strategy is expanding the taxation basal to see sectors and individuals antecedently extracurricular the ceremonial taxation system. This inaugural involves leveraging exertion and information integration to place and bring much taxpayers into the fold.

“Through information analytics and integration with different institutions, we tin present place registered businesses and individuals and lucifer their activities with taxation obligations,” helium stated. “The aforesaid goes for the informal sector, which we are targetting done mobile wealth transactions and different information points.”

The relation of organization collaboration

Collaborations with cardinal institutions specified arsenic the Registrar of Companies and Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) were identified by the Commissioner-General arsenic cardinal to this effort. By integrating systems via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), GRA aims to entree applicable information points to place non-compliant businesses and individuals.

“We person commenced discussions with the Registrar of Companies to guarantee that each concern and idiosyncratic registered with them is connected to our database,” Mr. Sarpong noted.

“People volition record their societal information due to the fact that it is tied to their retirement, but volition not wage their taxes. So it is indispensable that we link with an instauration similar SSNIT to place these businesses and guarantee compliance.”

GH¢200bn gross people successful 2025

The GRA has acceptable an ambitious people to rise astatine slightest GH¢200billion successful taxation gross by the extremity of 2025, a important summation from the GH¢153billion collected successful 2024. This people is portion of a medium-term strategy to boost home gross mobilisation and summation the country’s tax-to-GDP ratio.

“This year, we’re targetting GH¢200billion successful taxation revenue, up from GH¢153billion successful 2024,” Mr. Sarpong stated. “But successful the medium-term, by 2028 we purpose to scope a minimum of GH¢360billion.”

The ‘360 by 28’ run seeks to much than treble Ghana’s 2024 taxation gross performance. Achieving this people would determination Ghana’s tax-to-GDP ratio from the existent 13.8% to betwixt 17% and 18% by 2028.

Business-friendly reforms

Recognising the challenges businesses look successful complying with taxation obligations, GRA is implementing reforms aimed astatine simplifying taxation processes and providing enactment to businesses. These reforms are designed to promote voluntary compliance without stifling concern growth.

“Our strategy is to widen the taxation nett done the usage of technology. Many businesses person migrated online and are transacting via integer platforms, truthful that’s the mode to go,” Mr. Sarpong said.

“We are successful a integer and automated satellite and GRA indispensable not beryllium near down successful presumption of technological transformation. That is wherefore we’re digitising taxation medication to scope much taxpayers, including those extracurricular the net,” helium said.

Trust, integrity and professionalism

The Commissioner General besides shared that the GRA is focusing connected gathering a payer concern rooted successful trust, integrity, and professionalism. “Taxpayers are our customers, and we indispensable physique nationalist spot and assurance successful the taxation system. When that happens, we tin mobilise the needed gross to enactment the nation’s reset agenda,” Mr. Sarpong noted.

These initiatives, helium said, heighten GRA’s gross mobilisation done inclusive, transparent and business-friendly approaches. Clearly, arsenic Ghana embarks connected its economical reset, GRA’s strategies are poised to play a pivotal relation successful achieving fiscal stableness and supporting nationalist development.