Eight economic hubs outside city contributed only 2% to GRA revenues in 2014

Eight economic centres outside of the city including Corriverton, Linden and Parika contributed only 2% of the revenues of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in 2014.

According to Chairman of the GRA, Rawle Lucas the authority “must acknowledge the sad reality of tax non-compliance in Guyana” and begin to comprehensively address the issue.

At a press conference on Friday, he said that in order to do this the agency must clearly establish and understand its tax base. Thus in an effort to do this GRA has begun to disaggregate the revenue collection data by