The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has urged all property owners in Ghana to pay their bills.

 The GRA stated that those who disobey the order will face legal consequences.

The GRA stated that the court could order the property to be sold in order to pay off the debt.

"All property rate payers are to settle their bills within 42 days of the bill date," the Authority stated in a tweet. The Local Governance Act 936, Section 154 1 will be followed in prosecuting defaulters, and the court may permit the sale of your property to recoup the unpaid debt. In order to avoid any inconvenience, pay soon.

This occurs at the same time as Tsonam Akpeloo, an executive member of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), encouraged the GRA to emulate the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), which was visiting customers to collect debts, and do the same to collect property tax.

According to Tsonam Akpeloo, property taxes are one of the ways the government can make money in addition to taxing enterprises.

Speaking about the three revenue laws that have been adopted by Parliament -- the excise duty, the growth and sustainability levy, and the income amendment bills -- on the Ghana Tonight program on TV3 on Wednesday, April 5, he said “Our view is that government must look at its own expenditure and reduce its expenditure to reflect the realities of the time.

“Times are hard and you cannot afford to have a bloated expenditure this time. We feel very strongly that government should consider reviewing its own expenditure.”

He added “There are many ways of mobilizing revenue, for example, property tax. We keep talking about the same issue on property tax, I know people who really have to go to the Municipal offices to ask for their property tax because nobody is coming to them.

 “ECG has just started calling people to pay for their electricity bills, we propose that GRA should also go round to collect property tax so they can mobilise revenue.”