A staunch activist of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, has rubbished media reports that flagbearer of the NPP has failed to pay to the state the tax element involved in the sale of his late father�s property.
The Ghanaian Lens newspaper, on Thursday published that the NPP flagbearer has denied the state an amount of 1.8 million dollars in tax revenue that he should have paid as capital gain, from the alleged sale of his late father�s property known as the Ringway Hotel, which was sold to SG-SSB for 22,659 dollars.
The deal, according to newspaper�s sources, was concluded in London during Akufo-Addo�s recent visit to the UK.
�However, checks at the various tax agencies, including the Domestic Tax Division of and GRA showed that Akufo-Addo has not reported the transaction to the taxman let alone pay one dime as tax on the money that he made from the sale,� claims the Ghanaian Lens.
But speaking in an interview on Radio Gold, an Accra-based commercial radio station; Abu Jinapor expressed shock at the �malicious� publication, and maintained that the property was never sold, but was rather leased.
He described the publication as childish.
��the property has not been sold but it has been leased to SG-SSB. With all due respect I think that it�s childish thinking�� he said.
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