Acting Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Anthony Kwasi Sarpong, has revealed that the institution is piloting a digital economy tool aimed at collecting taxes from online businesses.
Speaking at the KPMG 2026 Post-Budget Forum on Monday, themed “Resetting for Growth, Jobs and Economic Transformation,” he said the initiative is designed to ensure Ghana benefits from the rapidly growing online business sector.
“We are at the moment piloting what we call the digital economy tool because online businesses are growing. There are businesses outside the country selling a lot in Ghana, but we do not get the benefit of the VAT,” he explained.
The GRA is collaborating with the Bank of Ghana and the Financial Intermediation to deploy a system that will automatically deduct taxes at the point of payment.
Mr. Sarpong cited global examples, including tech giants like Amazon, to illustrate how the system would ensure that taxes due to Ghana are properly collected.
He emphasised that the government’s approach is not about introducing new taxes but improving efficiency in collecting existing ones.
“Government action is really not to introduce new taxes; it is to create efficiencies in the way we employ the existing taxes. In that way, we believe we can generate a lot more revenue,” he said.
