The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu has called on personnel of Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) to re-double their efforts in the promotion of voluntary tax compliance.
He said they could re-orient their operations to make them more transparent to clients.
Mr Baah-Wiredu made the call in an address read for him by Mr Harry Owusu, Executive Secretary of Revenue Agencies Governing Board at the launching of this year's CEPS Tax Education Campaign at Takoradi.
Mr Baah-Wiredu said there was the need for CEPS to re-engineer its operations to make it customer-friendly, less cumbersome and invest in developing skills of personnel through education and training.
He said the theme for the campaign re-affirmed that CEPS was moving into a new era of tax administration to build an enduring partnership with the tax payer and the public to create an efficient and transparent tax system.
Mr Baah-Wiredu said one of the surest ways to achieve voluntary compliance was to improve public perception of revenue administration in the country by working hard to improve upon organizational efficiency and effectiveness through improved service delivery.
He said CEPS could create a transparent tax system that would promote voluntary compliance to realize objectives of the campaign by ensuring the integrity and fairness of the tax system.
Others are to build the enforcement capacity of key operational areas, create conditions to promote organizational efficiency, effectiveness and improve trade facilitation mechanism by developing specific industry support regimes.
