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Augustine Sefa, Deputy Commissioner, Coaching and Improvement at Ghana Income Authority (GRA) has mentioned workers of the Authority would from November 2022 obtain data know-how coaching by an e-learning platform.
Mr Sefa who was talking on the official graduation of the GRA’s IT coaching centre in Tema mentioned E-learning which was a characteristic of the centre would allow all its workers throughout the nation to entry the wanted IT coaching with out having to journey to Accra with its related monetary burden and inconveniences.
He burdened that the necessity for know-how within the discharge of their mandate, couldn’t be overemphasised due to this fact their resolve by authorities to supply the wanted ultra-modern IT coaching centre which has e-learning as a part.
The opposite parts of the IT coaching centre challenge embrace the bodily construction, to be geared up with the wanted logistics, whereas the opposite part would cowl operational points comparable to curriculum and module, in addition to a coaching administration system.
Giving some particulars of the IT challenge which is anticipated to be accomplished and operationalized in November 2022, Mr Sefa mentioned KFW German Financial institution for Improvement was funding the challenge in two components of three.5million Euro mortgage and 1.5million Euro grant.
Mr Sefa mentioned the challenge began with the signing of each mortgage and contract agreements between the Governments of Ghana and Germany.
Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu Amoah, Commissioner-Basic of GRA in a speech learn on his behalf by Ms Valerie Ennison, Deputy Commissioner, Transformation Workplace, famous that the digital technique absolutely aligns with the emotions of accessing transactional information, automation of extremely standardized tax actions, taxpayer communication, and optimisation of debt administration processes.
Rev. Amoah mentioned the method of digitalisation and modernisation of tax administration should all the time be carried out with consideration of its fundamental strategic goal, which he famous was to lift the degrees of voluntary compliance by taxpayers.
This he mentioned might be achieved by making procedures simpler for individuals who want to comply to take action whereas finishing up a radical battle in opposition to fraud.
He mentioned the Authority was poised to deploy programs to boost tax administration of digital companies in Ghana comparable to web-hosting, on-line procuring, amongst others along with the hire tax system.
He indicated that it was evident that GRA’s digital transformation would require numerous particular expertise starting from programming, analytics, configuration, and testing, and system integration.
The IT coaching centre, he mentioned when accomplished would additionally present GRA with the pipeline of expertise to supply steady help for the Authority’s programs together with implementation of inevitable change requests that have been typically raised after a system had been applied.