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THE NOTICEBOARD

Newspaper for Micro, Small & Medium Scale Enterprises

Issue No. 63 Free Copy October, 2020

Vodafon Poised
Ghanaian MSME’s
To Improve SMEs’
to Pay Taxes Online Productivity &

in Our Next Term. Agility

----- Dr. Bawumia
mall and Medium Scale (SME's) businesses in the country
will be allowed to file and pay their taxes online should the
SNew Patriotic Party (NPP) be re-elected in the upcoming
December polls, Vice President, Dr Bawumia has pledged.

This was contained in the just launched manifesto document of the
New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the 2020 general elections.
Addressing a gathering at the launch of the manifesto in Cape
Coast on Saturday, Dr Bawumia explained the measure forms part
of the NPP's resolve to sensitize and digitize SME's in a bid to
identify them and educate them on paying taxes.

“We want to introduce regulatory flexibility for MSMEs in their
compliance because there's so much hustle under the current Ms. Tawa Bolarin
Dir. fo Enterprise Business Unit
s part of
dispensation that we see for many MSMEs in complying with & Wholesale st Vodafone
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taxation. So, we want to introduce a simplified tax regime for commitment to
MSMEs with a very flexible one and make sure they can pay their
taxes online. So that tax collectors from GRA cannot come in and Aempowering Small
harass them for non-payment of taxes. In fact, we would totally and Medium Scale
discourage payment of tax or levies in cash. You will do it on your Enterprises (SMEs) in the
mobile phone through mobile money,” he disclosed.
month of September,
He continued; “We're going to introduce a single business Vodafone Ghana has outlined
identifier. Just as you have for individuals with a National ID card,
a host of activities to
you'll have that for businesses improve the productivity and
so that across interaction with
government, there's one agility of SMEs in Ghana.
number. And that can easily be
done because when you register This year's SME month is
a business, there is one number
anyway. A business registration aimed at equipping SMEs
number is given so that doesn't with requisite skills, insights,
require new registration. We'll and opportunities to enable
just make sure that is your
unique identifier.” them transform from
surviving to thriving
Meanwhile, flagbearer of the businesses.
National Democratic Congress
Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia
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