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Beggars to pay taxes.<\/p>\n

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) serves notice to street beggars. Furthermore, they plan to tax street beggars as part of moves to widen the tax net.<\/p>\n

Also, the exercise will target individuals, especially women selling Dubai Wax prints and other imports.<\/p>\n

The Principal Revenue Chief at the Small Tax Payer Office of the GRA spoke about how beggars harvest a lot of daily earnings that fall within the tax threshold.<\/p>\n

Beggars and hawkers to pay taxes<\/h4>\n

\u201cThose who carry things on their heads to sell (hawkers) be it cloth or consumables, we will tax them, how much more people who earn daily.<\/em><\/p>\n

GRA taxes foreigners in town and by law the beggars fall within the taxable threshold.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore, Alhaji Mohammed stressed that those begging as a form of business and a \u201chobby\u201d should be ready to pay tax on their earnings.<\/p>\n

However, Alhaji Yahaya acknowledged that the task was cumbersome. He added it was necessary to widen the tax net in order to pluck more revenue.<\/p>\n

He said some of the beggars have assets and are making the \u201cbegging business\u201d attractive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is difficult to tax them but if they get the understanding that the income that they are earning, they are supposed to pay something to government it will help.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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