Tax the informal sector, push for tax equity — Prof. Abor

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• Nii 10 years ago

  We started talking about taxing the informal sector over Forty years ago;during Acheampongs days When and how ,we don't know. Let's hear concrete methodologies on the way forward.We are tired of empty exhortations .

  We started talking about taxing the informal sector over Forty years ago;during Acheampongs days When and how ,we don't know. Let's hear concrete methodologies on the way forward.We are tired of empty exhortations .

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• BOY KOFI 10 years ago

  We should start doing simple things first.Get everybody a national identity card or a residence permit with an administrative address so that govt can oblige citizens to declare their annual revenue like it's done in the adva ...
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  We should start doing simple things first.Get everybody a national identity card or a residence permit with an administrative address so that govt can oblige citizens to declare their annual revenue like it's done in the advanced countries.Thank you.

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• Apau 10 years ago

  You seem to think ID Cards are a solution to all our problems. There is no evidence that Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso etc are more advanced or effective in collecting taxes because they have the "French Imposed" Car ...
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  You seem to think ID Cards are a solution to all our problems. There is no evidence that Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso etc are more advanced or effective in collecting taxes because they have the "French Imposed" Carte d Identite" than Ghana.
  
  Secondly, ID cards does not prevent crime or bombing as you have witnessed in France,Belgium etc.
  
  We should concentrate on graft and corruption and tax avoidance by those who keep robbing the poor. Ghost names on government payrolls cost us more than telling my cocoa farming parents to "fork out" 200=300 cedis for some stupid ID CARD.
  
  Even when we at the bottom pay our taxes,the rich sons of Kofi Annan and Kufour manage to escape by opening bank accounts in some outlandish places such as Panama or Nuie island just to avoid tax.

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• Ghana Man 10 years ago

  The sitting President and former Presidents should also start playing tax.

  The sitting President and former Presidents should also start playing tax.

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• HUSEIN MUSTAPHA 10 years ago

  I also support the concept of broadening the tax net, by involving the informal sector, as it would reduce the tax liability of businesses and there by leading to their expansion.

  I also support the concept of broadening the tax net, by involving the informal sector, as it would reduce the tax liability of businesses and there by leading to their expansion.

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• mohammed 10 years ago

  it is not about expanding to the informal sector, rather utilizing the current system adequately to entice all sectors to come along voluntarily.
  why will you want to pay your taxes to a bunch of bureaucrats whose offices ar ...
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  it is not about expanding to the informal sector, rather utilizing the current system adequately to entice all sectors to come along voluntarily.
  why will you want to pay your taxes to a bunch of bureaucrats whose offices are a bunch of corrupt criminal institution set up on the grounds that they have a skill that has no positive productivity to the nation? look at the payroll and its productivity.

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• ESID 10 years ago

  Search for the Effective States and Inclusive Development website to read the research in this article

  Search for the Effective States and Inclusive Development website to read the research in this article

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