The Ghana Revenue Authority has indicated its intention to descend further on businesses evading taxes.

Officials of the authority on Friday, September 16, 2022 locked up the facilities of a plush event and trading centre, 'De Icon' at East Legon in Accra for failing to honour their tax obligation to the state.

The action by the GRA is to ensure that all revenues due to the state through taxes are collected from culpable businesses.

The team locked up the facility to restrain the owners and customers from doing business until the tax registration process is concluded.

Chief Revenue Officer at the office of the Commissioner General, Nathaniel Tetteh told Journalists that the company will be made to comply with the law and pay penalties before it can resume operations.

“We have information that this facility has been operating since December 2021 without the necessary tax requirements. So our assignment here is to lock the place until the right thing is done”.

“We also need some tax documents from the administration, so we can use it to track the business they have done and apply the charges” he told Joy Business.

Friday September 16, 2022 operations was part of an ongoing nationwide Valued Added Tax Invigilation exercise by the authority to retrieve some taxes due the state.

The GRA as part of the nationwide invigilation will continue to embark on mystery shopping exercises across the country to apprehend culprits evading tax.

Meanwhile, all efforts to get the managers or the directors of ‘De Icon’ to speak to the media was not successful.