The Chief Revenue Officer in Charge of Suspense Regime at Tema Port, Theophilus Okine says vehicles sold without accurate clearance by the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, GRA, attracts a maximum penalty of 300 per cent of the actual price.
Mr. Okine said this in an interview with Obonu News on the sidelines of a workshop for tax payers in the Tema Region.
He said the Customs laws enjoin that the 300 per cent of the vehicle price can be imposed on the perpetrator at the prerogative of the Director-General of Customs.
The Participants drawn from Spintex, Teshie, Nungua, Tema, Ashaiman and its environs were enlightened on the GRA’s amended Value Added Tax, National Health Insurance Levy and the Ghana Educational Trust Fund acts.
Mr. Okine mentioned that persons who ship vehicles into Ghana under the temporal importation regime and later sell them to unsuspecting people without paying the required Custom taxes will also not be spared.
He explained that such vehicles are allowed into the country after paying a fee at the borders and granted a Temporal Vehicle Importation, TVI, permitting owners of such vehicles to use it in Ghana for a maximum of three months however since some go to the extent of tampering with the chasis number it makes it difficult for officers to trace the numbers entered into the system at the borders for monitoring.
GBC’s Edith Atiaka Eshun report.
