GRA did not meet its targets during the first 3 months of 2024 – says Commissioner

Hon. Joe Ghartey, Commisioner Gyamarah and the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church

Mr Edward Apenteng Gyamerah, Commissioner in Charge of Domestic Revenue Division of the Ghana Revenue Division has stated that in the first three months of this year the Ghana Revenue Authority did not meet its revenue targets.

Commissioner Gyamerah who has headed the Domestic Revenue Division of GRA since October 2019, said that in April a new year top mangement team headed by the Commisioner General , Ms. Julie Essiam was put in place and the next month in May a new Board Chaired by Hon Joe Ghartey was also sworn in. He said they together with the new Minister for Finance were determined to improve the downward trajectory of revenue collection. As such they introduced new strategies and stretched themselves to reach the targets.

Commissioner Gyamarah said this when the Ghana Revenue Authority led by their Chairperson Hon Joe Ghartey paid a courtesy call on the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Most Rev. Dr. Paul Kwabena Boafo.

Commissioner Gyamarah confessed that the job of a tax official was very difficult so he asked for the Methodist Church and indeed all churches to remember them in prayer. He told the gathering that the new Minister and the new Board had put them under immense pressure but it had made them

exceed their own expectations. Commissioner Gyamarah’s Division is responsible for collecting over 70 per cent of tax revenue in Ghana.