Amidst a probe into whether Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur leaked private taxpayer information, the governing board of the agency has authorised several policy changes which are intended to protect taxpayer data.
Chief among these changes is a prohibition on the storage of taxpayer data offsite. All data is expected to reside in a secure place which is the authorised central storage and retrieval system of the GRA and there is expected to be the implementation of a high standard with regards to its access.
At a press conference yesterday at the authority’s Camp Street main office yesterday, Chairman of the GRA board Rawle Lucas announced the changes while saying that an existing lack of trust and respect between taxpayers and the
