Ahafo-Ano communities refuse to pay tax

A number of communities in the Ahafo-Ano South District of Ashanti have refused to pay their taxes, claiming that they did not benefit from any development package since the inception of the district in 1988.

Mr Kwaku Obeng Boateng, the District Chief Executive, who announced this at Mankranso on Friday, said this state of affairs had saddened him since it was the avowed aim of the assembly and the government to equitably share the national cake among all communities.

He appealed to such communities to discard the notion and team up with the assembly's revenue staf to collect maximum revenue. Addressing the first ordinary meeting of the assembly, Mr Boateng said notwithstanding the refusal of these communities to pay their taxes, the assembly raised 362.4 million cedis last year, representing 126 percent of the projected revenue.

The assembly has so far collected 97.3 million cedis out of the 475.1 million cedis targeted for this year, representing 21 percent he said, describing it as a good beginning.