{"id":338720,"date":"2017-07-24T07:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338720"},"modified":"2017-07-24T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:42:28","slug":"gra-clears-agambire-re-opens-his-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338720","title":{"rendered":"GRA clears Agambire, re-opens his office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has removed the wanted tag on Roland Agambire\u00a0and has also re-opened his locked office for business.<\/p>\n<p>The office of ACI Construction Company Limited, a subsidiary of Agams Holdings, was re-opened for business last Thursday by the tax authority following the resolution of inconclusive tax issues with the company.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nEQY5eGyYpNcPdWBASJCFLK1lB7cLDZX&#8221;]The National Coordinator for the Task Force at the GRA, Henry Sam, who disclosed this, said the decision to re-open the company for business followed a meeting with the management of ACI construction over disputed tax figures.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that ACI Construction filed an appeal to challenge the GH\u20b514million put out by GRA as tax liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, after examining financial statements of ACI Construction, it turned out the tax liabilities is rather GH\u20b51.3million and not the GH\u20b514million put out by GRA last month.<\/p>\n<p>ACI Construction and its external Tax Consultants and Lawyers filed its tax and financial returns and engaged the GRA in a bid to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>ACI Construction had explained that since the figure was in dispute, it is unfair for GRA to make categorical statements on it.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of ACI Construction told The Finder that a substantial part of the GH\u20b51.3million has since been paid and that parties are working on agreeing on mutually-accepted timelines for the remaining liabilities to be settled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like all other state agencies, we have a great deal of respect for the GRA, the reason we are co-operating with them to resolve the disputed amount and ensure its eventual settlement&#8221;, a company official told this paper.<\/p>\n<p>The company official said just as it had done in the past complying with statutory and all other legal issues of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s offices have since been opened and at the time of our visit, an official ACI Construction, Mr Emmanuel Arthur, confirmed ongoing efforts to avoid a re-occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese things are normal in business but the important thing is our proactive attitude to engage the relevant state body to have the situation fixed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Finder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has removed the wanted tag on Roland Agambire\u00a0and has also re-opened his locked office for business. The office of ACI Construction Company Limited, a subsidiary of Agams Holdings, was re-opened for business last Thursday by the tax authority following the resolution of inconclusive tax issues with the company. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nEQY5eGyYpNcPdWBASJCFLK1lB7cLDZX&#8221;]The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,11],"tags":[3,8458],"class_list":["post-338720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-roland-agambire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}