A letter dated 4th March, 2005, addressed to the External Auditors of Militant Publications Limited (Weekly Insight) Ofori Quartey & Co., Chartered Accountants from Ms. Elizabeth Hil, Chief Inspector of Taxes of the Accra District ?2? Nima, had as its introduction,
The Chief Inspector of Taxes, had requested the Auditors, to provide some ?additional information to enable me finalise the assessment for the year 2002.?
The tax liabilities of the Publishers had been summarized as follows:
The letter, copied to the Managing Director, Militant Publications Ltd, had stated the total liability of the company in the words, ?Please advise your client to settle the above total liability of ?38,913,415 within fifteen days from the date of this letter.?
The Auditor-General was reported by the Daily Graphic of yesterday to have given company income tax liability of the publishers as, ??52,766,819, Kwesi Pratt (personal tax), ?19,302,450? and others which had been captured in the computations of the Chief Inspector of Taxes? assessment notice to the publishers.
Article 187(5) of the 1992 Constitution requires The Auditor-General, to ?within six months after the end of the immediately preceding financial year to which each of the accounts mentioned in clause (2)? i.e public accounts of Ghana, ?submit his report to Parliament?.
Some observers are wondering if Mr. Dua-Agyeman has been fulfilling this constitutional obligation, as he had made it his business to consistently pursue individual critics of government.
Meanwhile, some observers see the conduct of the Auditor-General in the matter of Kwesi Pratt Jnr., as being consistent with his track record over the past few years.
His predecessor, Dr. Osei Tutu Prempeh, the Minority Leader, Mr. Alban Bagbin, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, Running mate of the National Democratic Congress? presidential candidate in the last elections, and the Electoral Commissioner, Dr. K. Afari-Gyan had all been cited by him, on some impropriety allegations, after they had been critical of government!
One recalls that after Dr. Afari-Gyan had resisted government attempts at setting up a Procurement Committee for the Commission, prior to the December 2004 elections, the Auditor-General came up with some findings suggesting he had not been able to account for some monies the EC had been given to undertake some continental assignment.
The former Auditor-General, Dr. Prempeh had also been cited for misappropriating some United Nations Peace-Keeping funds, an allegation that the world body subsequently investigated and found to be baseless.
Mr. Bagbin was cited to have benefited from his directorship of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), after he had taken the President to the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), over some additional works done on the President?s residence.
A letter dated 4th March, 2005, addressed to the External Auditors of Militant Publications Limited (Weekly Insight) Ofori Quartey & Co., Chartered Accountants from Ms. Elizabeth Hil, Chief Inspector of Taxes of the Accra District ?2? Nima, had as its introduction,
The Chief Inspector of Taxes, had requested the Auditors, to provide some ?additional information to enable me finalise the assessment for the year 2002.?
The tax liabilities of the Publishers had been summarized as follows:
The letter, copied to the Managing Director, Militant Publications Ltd, had stated the total liability of the company in the words, ?Please advise your client to settle the above total liability of ?38,913,415 within fifteen days from the date of this letter.?
The Auditor-General was reported by the Daily Graphic of yesterday to have given company income tax liability of the publishers as, ??52,766,819, Kwesi Pratt (personal tax), ?19,302,450? and others which had been captured in the computations of the Chief Inspector of Taxes? assessment notice to the publishers.
Article 187(5) of the 1992 Constitution requires The Auditor-General, to ?within six months after the end of the immediately preceding financial year to which each of the accounts mentioned in clause (2)? i.e public accounts of Ghana, ?submit his report to Parliament?.
Some observers are wondering if Mr. Dua-Agyeman has been fulfilling this constitutional obligation, as he had made it his business to consistently pursue individual critics of government.
Meanwhile, some observers see the conduct of the Auditor-General in the matter of Kwesi Pratt Jnr., as being consistent with his track record over the past few years.
His predecessor, Dr. Osei Tutu Prempeh, the Minority Leader, Mr. Alban Bagbin, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, Running mate of the National Democratic Congress? presidential candidate in the last elections, and the Electoral Commissioner, Dr. K. Afari-Gyan had all been cited by him, on some impropriety allegations, after they had been critical of government!
One recalls that after Dr. Afari-Gyan had resisted government attempts at setting up a Procurement Committee for the Commission, prior to the December 2004 elections, the Auditor-General came up with some findings suggesting he had not been able to account for some monies the EC had been given to undertake some continental assignment.
The former Auditor-General, Dr. Prempeh had also been cited for misappropriating some United Nations Peace-Keeping funds, an allegation that the world body subsequently investigated and found to be baseless.
Mr. Bagbin was cited to have benefited from his directorship of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), after he had taken the President to the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), over some additional works done on the President?s residence.
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