Ga West Assembly announces new measures to boost revenue collection

Accra, Sept.26, GNA - The Ga West District Assembly on Wednesday announced new measures to increase its revenue mobilisation to meet its 1.8 billion target and also enhance the development agenda of the district. The measures included the setting up of revenue collecting points within communities for easy accessibility, provision of identification cards to revenue collectors, and strengthening the capacity of existing collection companies in their allocated areas. Mr. Eric Busby Quartey-Papafio, the District Chief Executive, who announced this at a press conference in Accra, said an information desk had also been established within the assembly to attend to enquiries and complaints.

He said branches and satellite shops of businesses were expected to pay for their own business operating permits and property rates separately from their mother companies. Mr. Quartey-Papafio advised business and immovable property owners to always leave their bills and receipts anytime they were out of office and warned that revenue collection task force and contractors would not entertain any excuses.

He said the Assembly had recruited and trained personnel in the knowledge and skills of revenue collection to boost its income level and asked them to endeavour to do the right thing always. The DCE appealed to all property rate and business operating licence defaulters in the district to settle their debts before October 31, 2007 to avoid any encounter with the law. He called on owners of billboards and signboards who had yet not obtained permit from the Assembly to do so immediately or have their boards removed. Mr. Quartey-Papafio urged business owners to co-operate with the Assembly to avoid embarrassment, loss of income and prosecution.