Sallas Mensah tour agencies

Accra, June 10, GNA - Mr. Sallas Mensah, Acting Executive Secretary of the Revenue Agencies Governing Board (RAGB), has visited the Head Office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Osu and Adabraka District Offices, as part of a familiarization tour of the revenue agencies.

At the Head Office, he met with the management to discuss the proposed integration of the revenue agencies into an authority and the vision of the government to make the agencies more efficient and effective.

Mr. Mensah said he considered the visit to the IRS as a homecoming because he had worked with the IRS as an Assistant Commissioner in charge of Tax Examination Division from 1986 until he entered the first Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana in 1992. He assured the management and staff of the IRS of government's readiness to provide the needed logistics to enhance service delivery. Mr. Mensah appealed for their co-operation and urged them to exhibit professionalism in their work.

He inspected the new data processing room located at IRS Kinbu Office to assess the progress of work on IRS computerization effort. At the district offices, Mr Mensah interacted with the staff and encouraged them to embrace the envisaged changes. He urged them to be patriotic and unite to ensure sustained development for Ghana and an improvement in the lives of the people. 10 June 09