Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems

Ghana’s tax collection is low compared with other lower middle-income countries. Non-compliance of tax payments is an urgent issue in Ghana, as the government has been suffering from a widening fiscal deficit and a rising debt burden. Learning from...

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Main Author: World Bank
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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spelling okr-10986-348472021-04-23T14:02:09Z Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems World Bank TAX ADMINISTRATION TAX COMPLIANCE REVENUE MOBILIZATION TAX EVASION CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY VAT SALES TAX SELF-EMPLOYED INCOME TAX FORMALIZATION INFORMAL SECTOR Ghana’s tax collection is low compared with other lower middle-income countries. Non-compliance of tax payments is an urgent issue in Ghana, as the government has been suffering from a widening fiscal deficit and a rising debt burden. Learning from experiences in other countries, this report proposes potential interventions that could improve tax compliance. 2020-12-01T18:55:34Z 2020-12-01T18:55:34Z 2020-11-13 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/789701605637905864/Ghana-Enhancing-Revenue-Mobilization-Through-Improved-Tax-Compliance-and-Administrative-Systems http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34847 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Public Sector Study Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Ghana
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topic TAX ADMINISTRATION
TAX COMPLIANCE
REVENUE MOBILIZATION
TAX EVASION
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
VAT
SALES TAX
SELF-EMPLOYED INCOME TAX
FORMALIZATION
INFORMAL SECTOR
spellingShingle TAX ADMINISTRATION
TAX COMPLIANCE
REVENUE MOBILIZATION
TAX EVASION
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
VAT
SALES TAX
SELF-EMPLOYED INCOME TAX
FORMALIZATION
INFORMAL SECTOR
World Bank
Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems
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Ghana
description Ghana’s tax collection is low compared with other lower middle-income countries. Non-compliance of tax payments is an urgent issue in Ghana, as the government has been suffering from a widening fiscal deficit and a rising debt burden. Learning from experiences in other countries, this report proposes potential interventions that could improve tax compliance.
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title Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems
title_short Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems
title_full Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems
title_fullStr Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems
title_full_unstemmed Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems
title_sort ghana : enhancing revenue mobilization through improved tax compliance and administrative systems
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/789701605637905864/Ghana-Enhancing-Revenue-Mobilization-Through-Improved-Tax-Compliance-and-Administrative-Systems
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