Otherwise, people would conduct business without paying any tax, which would be detrimental to the country. On the whole I am very pleased with the job. Some of these men and women at times give us tips when we are on our rounds, even though they are not obliged to. What they give helps cushion us, especially during lean periods of the month. Though we carry out tax education from time to time, the exercise seems to be falling on deaf ears.
Most Ghanaian businessmen like to evade tax.
Even more disturbing are the wicked deeds that some big-time businessmen like the building and road contractors do to us tax officials. We stand the risk of being run down by someone in his car if he feels hurt because he has been denied a tax clearance certificate which he could use to secure a big building or road contract. When people are refused a tax clearance certificate by our office because they have not paid their taxes, they often turn around to blame us as unsympathetic and inhuman, rather than blaming themselves for neglecting their responsibilities. In spite of the risk involved in the discharge of our duties, for the period that I have been with the Internal Revenue Service I have performed creditably. This is shown through the good reports my supervisor writes about my work.