Ahafo-Ano communities refuse to pay tax
Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 25 March 2002 - Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, Ashanti Regional Minister, has observed that the need to think and act globally was no longer an option but a pre-requisite to business and survival.
"Today we live in a global market place where business was increasingly competitive and where new technologies, product developments and market changes challenged us daily.
"The way we do business and the environment within which we do it are changing so rapidly that business strategy that is successful today could spell failure tomorrow."
Mr Boafo made the observation when he opened the Easter Grand Sales of the Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited (GTFC) at the Prempeh Assembly Hall in Kumasi on Friday.
The 11-day fair, the second to be held in Kumasi, is in collaboration with the
Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and the National Board for Small-Scale Industries (NBSSI).
The Regional Minister said the Grand Sales 2002-Kumasi, was the Trade Fair Company's attempt at creating a more vibrant platform for commercial and industrial operators to get acquainted with the change, challenges and more importantly, profitable opportunities available at the market place.
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Mankranso (Ashanti Region) 25 March 2002 - A number of communities in the Ahafo-Ano South District of Ashanti have refused to pay their taxes, claiming that they did not benefit from any development package since the inception of the district in 1988.
Mr Kwaku Obeng Boateng, the District Chief Executive, who announced this at Mankranso on Friday, said this state of affairs had saddened him since it was the avowed aim of the assembly and the government to equitably share the national cake among all communities.
He appealed to such communities to discard the notion and team up with the assembly's revenue staf to collect maximum revenue. Addressing the first ordinary meeting of the assembly, Mr Boateng said notwithstanding the refusal of these communities to pay their taxes, the assembly raised 362.4 million cedis last year, representing 126 percent of the projected revenue.
The assembly has so far collected 97.3 million cedis out of the 475.1 million cedis targeted for this year, representing 21 percent he said, describing it as a good beginning.
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