The Nationwide Identification Authority (NIA) has disconnected the Ghana Income Authority (GRA) from its Id Verification Service (IVS) platform, which is used for verifying Ghana Card particulars.
The motion, efficient Tuesday, 5 August 2025, follows the GRA’s failure to settle a debt of GH¢376 million.
In consequence, the GRA can now not entry the platform to confirm the identities of taxpayers and different people, a improvement that might disrupt tax compliance and different key operations.
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The transfer has already left many importers and exporters stranded, as they’re unable to clear items on the nation’s ports.
Addressing a information convention, the Head of Company Affairs on the NIA, Williams Aumman Dallas, mentioned the Authority is going through monetary misery as a consequence of unsuccessful efforts to recuperate money owed from the GRA and different public establishments.
He acknowledged:
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Let me state that there are establishments that owe us. These are public establishments, and I’ve been suggested to not point out names. So I cannot point out names, however it’s actually affecting our operations as an Authority.
He additional issued a robust attraction to all indebted public establishments to settle their money owed or danger comparable penalties:
And so by this press briefing, we’re interesting to those public establishments to fulfil their monetary obligations to us in order that we will maximise our operations. Failure to take action will go away us with no selection however to disclaim them entry to our providers.
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In the meantime, the Govt Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Affiliation of Ghana, Sampson Asaki Awingobit, has appealed to authorities to swiftly resolve the deadlock to allow a resumption of providers on the ports.
Based on him, the scenario has left a lot of their members annoyed.
