The Ghana
Revenue Authority (GRA) has responded to the North Tongu Member of Parliament,
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, after he filed a request under the Right to
Information (RTI) Act, asking for information about what he said are two Tax
Identification Numbers (TIN) being held by Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng, a
member of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, contrary to the norm
that each individual is supposed to have a single TIN
Ablakwa had
earlier alleged that Rev. Boateng was using different identities and different
TINs with which he operates different businesses and entities.
Following up with
his allegations which he had shared on various media platforms, the North Tongu
MP on January 25, 2023, filed a request asking the GRA to explain why one
person could be issued with two different TINs which the country's laws forbid.
In two requests
to the Commissioner General of the GRA and the Registrar General, Ablakwa is
asking for information on the actions the two institutions have undertaken to
address the supposed multiple identities and Tax Identification Numbers (TINs)
being used by Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng or Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, the Secretary to
the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral.
He wants to find
out how long it will take the GRA to conclusively address the issues he has
raised under the laws of the country.
However, the GRA
in a letter dated February 3, 2023, addressed to Okudzeto Ablakwa, explained
how the different TINS were acquired by the two persons.
It said at the
time of the registration for Kusi Boateng (August 13, 2013) and Adu Gyamfi
(March 15, 2016), "the registration system was not biometric and did not
have any facial recognition features for the detection of duplicate faces"
and explained that it had started investigations into the claim by Ablakwa that
the two individuals were the same person, who was using the double identity for
criminal reasons.
SOURCE: EMMANUEL
TORNYI || PULSE.COM.GH
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