Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has confiscated several vehicles that failed to meet duty and tax obligations in the Greater Accra region.  

The exercise on Monday started at GRA’s Airport branch, where sevearl vehicles were confiscated for non-compliance and aimed at creating “awareness that such special vehicle operations would be a sustained one.”

Briefing the media before the exercise, the Commissioner General of GRA, Kofi Nti said, “Intelligence reports reaching the GRA indicate that there are many such uncustomed vehicles and trucks driving on our roads with impunity without the payment of the requisite import duties and other taxes on them.” 

Head of the operations, Assistant Commissioner of Customs, Alhaji Iddrisu Seidu, said the impounded vehicles will be released to their owners only if they are able to produce the relevant documents to show all taxes have been paid.

Alhaji Seidu said if the owners are not able to provide those documents within a period of time, the cars will eventually be auctioned.

“After 30 days, we convert the detention to seizure and thereafter we start processing it through ‘gazetting’ and other legal actions that may be taken to either auction it or any other way to dispose of it.”

A similar exercise in 2017 resulted in about 754 vehicles being impounded across the country. 

The exercise is one of many yet to come and it is part of government’s efforts to block leakages in domestic revenue mobilization.