Phase 2 of E-VAT rollout to commence for over 2,000 taxpayers
The Ghanian Revenue Authority (GRA) is launching this month its second phase of e-invoicing regime, ‘E-VAT’. Phase 1, for 600 large and high-risk taxpayers, started in 2022 and completed.
This next phase will include more than two thousand small and medium taxpayers. The help close the VAT Gap, Commissioner-General’s certified invoice will be the only basis for all deductible expenses for income tax purposes.
The final taxpayers will be fully on-boarded by December 2024.
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This group of 2,000 covers almost 90% of all Value Added Tax revenues. GRA aims to raise VAT’s contribution to tax revenue to 20% by the end of this year and 30% in 2024. The medium-sized taxpayers will be mandated from December 2023.
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The GRA in April 2022 launched its voluntary e-invoicing platform for businesses to adopt electronic invoicing. E-VAT Portal to issue Electronic VAT invoices to customers will be piloted by 100 taxpayers. A pilot for 50 taxpayers (prior to phase 1) ending in October 2022.
Taxpayers report their sales invoices to obtain an electronic tax clearance certificate (e-TCC). The e-TCC allowed taxpayers to generate their certificates online, thereby eliminating the human involvement that led to the faking of such certificates.
This is a part of tax digitisation programme, including cashless payments and online tax filings.
The GRA has already introduced a platform for e-commerce and digital services portal which enables non-resident companies to pay taxes online as well as resident citizens.
Ghana also introduced VAT fiscal cash registers in 2018.
