NCCE engaging children as tax compliance ambassadors

Christian K. Ahiadwodzi, Agortime-Ziope District Director, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has said the Commission was engaging children as “tax compliance ambassadors”.

He said children could help enhance the Commission’s behavioural change communication and the system would also imbibe the culture of voluntary tax compliance in them as future leaders.

Mr Ahiadwodzi who was addressing students in Kpetoe on this year’s Citizenship Week Celebration, on the theme “Our Taxes Build a Great Nation”, said voluntary contributions would help the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) harvest enough tax revenue for development.

He explained that this year’s celebration, in two phases, would focus on tax compliance and environmental governance, and “remind citizens of their active participation on nation building”.

Mr Kenneth Kponor, Regional Director, NCCE, said there was the need for Ghanaians to work harder to consolidate the country’s democratic gains after 25 years of uninterrupted rule of law.

He said it was imperative students were sensitized on the contents of the constitution, to uphold and abide by it.

Mr Kponor noted that the sensitization would help build in students a spirit of patriotism to defend the nation’s gains for generations unborn.

Mr Kentle Agboli, Assembly Member, Kpetoe North, noted that developmental projects and social intervention policies would stall if taxes remained unpaid.

He called on the students to be good ambassadors on tax compliance and sensitise their parents and relations to file their tax returns to the GRA and the various district assemblies.

The Citizenship week celebration is sponsored by the GRA, UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and the GIZ.

GNA