{"id":991,"date":"2019-08-11T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=991"},"modified":"2019-08-11T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T14:55:47","slug":"gra-unable-to-account-for-over-1000-auctioned-vehicles-ag-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/gra-unable-to-account-for-over-1000-auctioned-vehicles-ag-report","title":{"rendered":"GRA unable to account for over 1000 auctioned vehicles- AG report\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Custom Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority is unable to account for money accrued from the auctioning of 1,719 confiscated cars, the 2018 Auditor General&#8217;s report has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the seized cars ready to auctioned during the exercise which will commence on July 1, 2017<\/p>\n<p>While officials of GRA provided information on just 688 of the cars, the report observes that there was no ample proof of the exact amount that was accrued to the state from the auction of those vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the act has resulted in huge revenue losses to the state, a Deputy Auditor-General at the Central Government Audit Department of the Audit Service, Mr George Swanzy Winful, has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Winful made this known at a media briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe sampled 2,388 of those vehicles for review in our audit exercise to find out if revenue was properly collected and if those proceeds were paid into the consolidated fund and realised that the 1,719 could not be accounted for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;They only provided information on 669 of the vehicles that were sampled. 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