The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is moving to improve its database management software system in order to improve its efficiency, according to Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia, who on Monday reported that it would be only a matter of time before the agency moves from the Total Revenue Integrated Processing Systems (TRIPS).
While the GRA’s accounts faced scrutiny during a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing on Monday, there were several instances where Statia objected to the figures presented in the 2015 Auditor General (AG) report due to what he explained were inefficiencies in the data management system, TRIPS.
The committee was going on the AG’s report that 1,509 of 3,494 taxpayers who were registered for Value-Added Tax (VAT) had failed to file their returns, with 991 of that number having made
