Latest update March 24th, 2025 7:05 AM
GRA’s operations likely for tweaking to improve performance
New Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, believes that the Guyana Revenue Authority is in need of tweaking to improve performance and efficiency.
Minister of Finance Winston Jordan being greeted at the Guyana Revenue Authority by Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur during his tour of the agency’s Head Office on Camp St, Georgetown.
He said that as the main revenue earner for Guyana, he recently visited the organisation for a firsthand look at its operations and get to know the senior staff.
It was also an opportunity to have an “understanding of some of the challenges faced in collecting the state’s revenue,” he added during an interview with the Government Information Agency (GINA).
Describing the GRA’s main office as “pretty organised” he noted that there may be need for some tweaking “here and there”.
There may be also some need for tax reform at the administrative levels. He is worried at the rate and the level of remittances, relative to the tax base.
Describing himself as action oriented, the Minister said that his visit was necessary before he presented his recommendations for the upcoming national budget and shared it with the organisation’s senior staffers.
In brief remarks, GRA Head Khurshid Sattaur said he was very enthused with the visit, noting that, “He did give us some suggestions about things we can do to enhance our operations”.
He seconded the opinion expressed by Minister Jordan about the GRA’s operations and described the training sector as the best division. “We would like to have his involvement as much as possible in that regard in helping us to build our human resources, our capacity and our ability to do our work”.
Finance Minister Winston Jordan originally joined the Finance Ministry in 1985 as Budget Director and after resigning in 1994, was asked to return as a Consultant where he worked until 2008. He was appointed to his current post on May 20.
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