Gov't Reshuffles About 1500 GRA Workers To Collect More Revenue

Close to 1500 employees of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have been reshuffled to drive government's ambitious transformational revenue mobilization in line with the country's pace of development.

The ongoing reforms by Government are to improve performance since they have accumulated gap of about $ 3.5 billion.

A release from the Public Relations Unit of the Ministry of Finance, which is one of the most important sources of revenue in the world. meet the country's commitments.

Alongside the exercise, the release of the authorizations of three persons to the management of the State of the United States.

They include Mr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, Acting Commissioner for Domestic Tax Revenue Division, Colonel Kwadwo Damoah (Rtd), Acting Commissioner, Customs Division and Ms. Julie Essiam, Acting Commissioner, Support Services Division.

The new officers will replace Kwesi Gyimah Asante, Commissioner with the Domestic Tax Revenue Division; Isaac Crentsil, Commissioner with Customs Division and Fred Charles Anson, Commissioner with Support Services Division, who have been rebadigned to the Finance Ministry.

In line with government, four thousand and fourteen (1,418) employees are being rotated to other departments of the organization, while continuing to work in the field of rural development.

According to the release the reorganization has been necessitated by three (3) main factors: First, the institution has grown significantly over the years, and is now one of the biggest institutions in Ghana. This has created the need for much stronger, world-clbad structures.

Secondly, the number of employees of the NABCO has increased to 7,000 and another 5,000 NABCO to shore up the authority's revenue mobilization capacity, bringing the total employees to 12,000, making GRA now one of the largest employers outside the Civil Service.

Thirdly, it says, there has been increasing need for domestic revenue mobilization in order to realize the Ghana Beyond Aid agenda.

The role of the manager is to improve the performance of the institution.

These changes are expected to bring about several improvements in the institution. This includes introducing the best of private sector practices and ensuring that it is more efficient. Additionally, these changes are expected to improve the overall level of professionalism and engender a customer-friendly mindset at GRA, "it said.