Akufo-Addo Evades Tax!

Surprise!

Surprise! Surprise! Investigations carried out by this paper and other allied

newspapers indicates that smoking wee and urinating on a mosque are not the

only crimes that Nana Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the NPP, has become notorious

for; the wannabe-President is also a tax dodger!

After

selling off his father’s Ringway Hotel in Accra sometime in May this year for a

staggering US$22. 659,000, the man who so desperately wants to become President

of Ghana artfully dodged paying a capital gain tax of 8% of the total amount to

the Internal Revenue Service, (IRS) as required by law.

Nana Akufo

Addo travelled to London to conclude the Sales & Purchase agreement with

the buyers, Societé Generalé (SG) of France, the current owners of SG-SSB Bank

Ghana Limited. A source at Societé Generalé confirmed to this paper that payment

was made to Nana Akufo Addo in London immediately afterwards.

However,

checks at the IRS here in Ghana indicates that the NPP flagbearer has not

declared the amount to the IRS nor has he paid the capital gains tax of 8% ( or

US$1.8 million” of the total amount to

the state.

It is not

yet known whether the IRS will write to him to declare the total amount

accruing from the sale of the property and demand payment of the capital gain

tax as required by law.

For a man

who wants to become President of Ghana, it is simply a mark of unpatriotism and

indiscipline for Nana Akufo-Adoo to refuse to pay tax. In the unlikely event

that he becomes President of Ghana, will he have the moral right to demand that

others pay tax. From now on, all eyes will be on the IRS and Akufo-Addo to see

if the right thing will be done.