Information reaching Today from the corridors of power indicates that the Special Operations Unit on Tax Evasion at the Presidency has uncovered about two hundred and eighty (280) public and private companies which had evaded taxes in the country.
This illegal act, sources told Today, has caused the state to lose a whopping US$367 million within seven years (from 2005-2012.)
That, according to the sources, also prompted the police to investigate the said companies which were alleged to have evaded taxes.
According to information available to Today, the police will close its investigations by the end of this month on the alleged companies purported to have evaded taxes and process them for court.
The move, this paper gathered, was as a result of the investigations by the Special Operations Unit on tax evasion in the country.
Meanwhile, speaking on Accra-based Joy FM, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Ghana Police Service, Mr. Joseph Benefo Darko, disclosed that the Unit has so far retrieved more than one billion Ghana cedis from some companies involved in this illegal act.
He disclosed that some of the cases were in court stressing that the police were still investigating a number of companies.
“As I speak to you we have finished with investigations on some of these dockets which will be forwarded [to the courts] for prosecution.
“…nine more dockets have reached advance stages of investigations and will soon be sent to court. More dockets are being built and will be forwarded for prosecution,” he confirmed.
It would be recalled that in October 2013, the presidential taskforce uncovered that over $367 million was lost to the state as a result of the tax evasion.
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