Should all importers and exporters open digital accounts at the Bank of Ghana - and pay taxes and levies directly into them?

When faced with an economic meltdown, such as the one we are currently experiencing, nothing should be sacred in our system - and all state revenue generating and collecting agencies that are abused by those they employ, to enable them dupe Mother Ghana, ought to be candidates for axing: to help end the endemic corruption slowly destroying our homeland Ghana. Simple.

Speaking as an uneducated old fogey, given the anecdotal evidence of the unfathomable greed that apparently drives so many staff members, of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), stationed at our nation's ports, harbours and border posts, the zany idea that comes readily to mind, and leads one to ponder over, is the question: Why does the state not simply ask all importers and exporters, to open digital accounts with the Bank of Ghana (BoG), into which they pay all taxes and levies directly? Enough is enough. Haaba.

Furthermore, can any of our country's many book-long PhD economists tell this uneducated old fool, Kofi Thompson, what disaster, exactly, would befall Mother Ghana, were legislation to be passed by Parliament, making such a policy possible? Hmmm, ey3nsem, piiiiii, Ghanafuo. Eeiiii, Oman Ghana - enti y3wieye paaaa enei? Asem kesie bi, ebeba debi ankasa, oooo. Yoooooo...

By Kofi Thompson