The Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), COP Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Dankwa, has encouraged business owners to file their annual returns.

This, she said will ensure that appropriate taxes are paid to the State thereby promoting the socio-economic development of the country.

“I encourage the business community that we are obligated to pay our taxes. Let us always remember that, little drops of taxes make a mighty nation.

“The point is, other countries have made it because of taxes and we should also do it. We should not always be concealing things from the tax man so that whatever we have to pay, we pay that,” she said on Friday.

She made this call during a brief ceremony in Techiman to inaugurate the Bono East Regional office of EOCO.

EOCO boss explained that taxes are essential to the day-to-day running of the state and as such the business community must pay to enable the government to undertake projects.

“You should also remember that you as a businessman cannot construct your own road, you cannot build your own hospitals, and you cannot construct your own terminal or anything.

“It is the taxes that government gets that they use to provide all these amenities for all of us. So we must ensure that we pay what we are obligated to pay and we should not hide anything from the tax man and we should be good citizens of the nation,” she added.

The new office will help EOCO to prevent and detect organised crimes as well as facilitate the confiscation of the proceeds of crime.