It is always unpleasant to receive a letter from Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) for the conduct of an audit and most companies wish to avoid that. However, this is inevitable, and you need to improve your tax compliance to avert tax risk. Nevertheless, I would be sharing our experience from the past 8years helping our valued clients undergoing tax audit by GRA.

There had been several controversies about the tax perspective on Clothing Allowance, especially for workers in the banking space where always looking sharp and professional is key to their industry. I don’t know your take on the subject, but the Income Tax Act and Practice Note provide better perspective.

From our experience a lot of companies do not fully comply with Section 116 of the Income Tax Act 2015 (Act 896). This section indicates that a resident person shall withhold appropriate tax in accordance with paragraph 8 of the First Schedule when making payment which has a source in the country.

In order to engage taxpayers and also to create the space for companies to determine their estimated chargeable income, which is in concert with their financial performance, the Income Tax Act 2015 (Act 896) introduced self-assessment.

Has your company employed fresh graduates in the current year of assessment? Then you may be qualified for additional tax deductions when determining corporate income tax for the basis period.

It is interesting that there are a number of tax planning opportunities to minimise your tax bite and to achieve your financial objectives. One of the variables is the Tier 3 (voluntary) contributions or provident fund which can be leveraged either by the employer or employee or both.

The business environment is quite challenging which necessitate companies to offer credit to their clients in order to literally stay in business. The credit line given to clients is just 30 days but it’s obvious that most companies do not meet their terms of payment and debts linger on sometimes beyond 90days.