{"id":382705,"date":"2017-12-12T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382705"},"modified":"2017-12-12T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:34:24","slug":"gra-shuts-metro-tv-unpaid-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382705","title":{"rendered":"GRA shuts down Metro TV over unpaid taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has shut down Accra-based television station Metro TV, reportedly over their\u00a0failure to pay their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>A visit by <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> to the Cantonment premises of the television station revealed that the GRA had restricted entry into the company with a seal of the Commissioner General.<\/p>\n<p>The premises of the station has since been locked up, with the building cordoned off with yellow tape.<\/p>\n<p>Checks have also revealed that the station went off air\u00a0for a few minutes but is now broadcasting again.<\/p>\n<p>GRA has recently begun cracking down on companies that have failed to fulfill their tax obligations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-382712\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Metro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of Ghana\u2019s busiest commercial centres, the Accra Mall was <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/29\/accra-mall-escapes-closure-over-taxes\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>almost closed down<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in November by the GRA for owning over 2 million cedis in unpaid tax arrears, however, swift intervention from the managers of the facility averted the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The move was triggered after the company failed to pay the said taxes despite an expiration of the deadline about two months ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-382711\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Metro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The amount, which is taxes owed in VAT, also followed an audit of the operations of the management of the mall by the GRA.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear exactly how much\u00a0 Metro TV owes and whether they were also given time to pay off the arrears.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-382710\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Metro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has shut down Accra-based television station Metro TV, reportedly over their\u00a0failure to pay their taxes. A visit by Citi Business News to the Cantonment premises of the television station revealed that the GRA had restricted entry into the company with a seal of the Commissioner General. The premises of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":382713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[3,2273,15390,1932],"class_list":["post-382705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-gra","tag-metro-tv","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382705","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=382705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}