Create more employment to reduce tax payers’ deficit - CEO
Chief Executive Officer of Educate Africa Institute (EAI), Mr. William Boadi says the government of Ghana should create more employment to be able to capture more citizens in the Tax payment system.
Joseph Marfo 
The Chief Executive Officer of Educate Africa Institute (EAI), Mr. William Boadi has stated that the number of people in the country that pay tax is below average with regards to the total population of the country.
‘‘The number of citizenries that pays tax is always centered on some selected portion of our population being the people working within the government sector'' he asserted.
According to. Boadi, the projected Ghanaian population of 33 million has only 30% of taxpayers hence making it difficult for the government to realize the needed revenue for the country's development.
He added that if the government is able to create a lot of direct and indirect jobs, it will be easier to track the employees to pay taxes since their salaries will be paid by the government.
He further stressed that; the government must introduce a system that will ensure that more Ghanaians are tracked to pay tax to increase the revenue of the country.
The CEO's calls come at the back of the introduction of the new tax by the government and the controversies surrounding them.
He, therefore, pleaded with the government to as a matter of urgency create more employment to be able to capture more citizens in the Tax payment system.
Ghanaians realized tax increments and the introduction of new taxes in the recent budget delivered by the Parliamentary affairs minister and the care-taker finance minister Honorable Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu.
A lot of Ghanaians have expressed their dissatisfaction with some new tax being introduced which has turned the NPP government to be a disappointed one in the eyes of many Ghanaians.
Nana Ama Asiedu, Bono Region
