The Chairperson of the Board of Trustees for the Covid-19 National Trust Fund Justice Sophia Akuffo has actually revealed that the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will offer tax rewards to the individuals and companies who have donated to the Trust Fund.
Justice Rtd Sophia Akuffo made the disclosure when she dealt with a short ceremony at the forecourt of the offices of the COVID-19 fund to hand over Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to some selected health organizations and associations in the Greater Accra Area.
This goes through satisfying requirements that the GRA has set out in its just recently published guidelines for the execution of the tax incentives in support of taxpayers versus the pandemic, she stated.
The Chairperson of the fund likewise showed that so far, the fund has actually gotten about fifty million Cedis (GHc 50,000,000) from donors.
She noted that the fund has nearly finished its internal procurement systems in conformity with the requirements of the Public Procurement Act, which will enable them to begin the utilization of the monies which have actually been contributed to the trust fund thus far.
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These monies are sitting in our accounts, but due to the fact that we need to satisfy every jot and tittle of the Procurement Act, we have actually not had the ability to start making requisite purchases that we can make in contributing to the materials and products that we got for distribution, neither can we even make financial expenses for setting up particular activities and services in the performance of our work.
She hopes that from the beginning of June the Trust would remain in a position to begin acquiring items.
Justice Akuffo likewise revealed that the Fund now has a brief code, * 887 * 100 #, that would enable the citizenry to donate any amount to support its mandate and hence motivated the general public to make donations to the Trust.
The organizations and associations who got the items are; the Pediatric Oncology System of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Nutrition Rehab Center of the Princess Marie Louise Children’s Hospital, and the El Wak Seclusion Center of the 37 Military Hospital.
The others are Nii Odoi Kwao Fan from Osu, the Ark Structure Ghana and the Association of Magistrates and Judges.
