The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is calling on the Kaieteur News to retract an article on transfers in the agency, stating that it is false and misleading.
In a statement, the GRA said that the article headlined ‘GRA Transfers Director, Supervisor for failing to justify assets’, which appeared in last Sunday’s edition of the newspaper is false and misleading and the tax body requested a retraction of the erroneous story.
The statement said that Colin Moore, Director and Alvin Howard, Supervisor, in the enforcement section of the GRA were never implicated in the Fidelity probe and the article caused considerable embarrassment to both men.
It noted that the current organizational restructuring initiatives under the Millennium Challenge Account programme and the decision of the governing board of the GRA, that staff should be rotated periodically to allow for the effective use of its human resources, have resulted in the transfer of officers throughout the organization. “Therefore, the transfer of officers should not be seen as any sinister move or that they are involved in corrupt practices of any kind”, the statement asserted.
It stated that the tax body’s Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur is committed to utilizing the best human resources in order to develop an effective and efficient functional organization.
Further, the statement said that recently the GRA “has been subject to some amount of criticism by certain sections of the media as it relates to the Fidelity issue” and advised that Kaieteur News desist from making uninformed and irresponsible comments about the officers of the GRA, and in future checks made with the Commis- sioner-General for clarification on any matter pertaining to the organization.
