The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced plans to introduce a digitized revenue collection system in March this year to improve the existing system.
The new system is expected to make payments more convenient, check revenue leakages and reduce corruption while promoting voluntary compliance and a conducive rate-paying environment.
The Mayor of Accra, Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, said this on Thursday, January 26th when she led a team of officers from the Assembly to sensitize traders on the roll-out of new receipts for payment of markets and lorry park tolls in the metropolis.
The new receipts to be issued from Friday 27th January 2023 have holograms in them for easy identification of which tickets were purchased.
Addressing the media, the Mayor of Accra said the AMA was leveraging the government’s digitalization drive to create an innovative solution to increase its internally generated funds and block all revenue leakages while reducing the human element.
She added that about 23 banks have been integrated into the new revenue collection system to give users the flexibility of payment options adding that “apart from using the banks, ratepayers can equally pay their bills via mobile money on all networks, QR codes, and a USSD code.”
She noted that prior to the introduction of the new revenue collection system in March all traders and market women in the metropolis would be registered and given special Quick Response (QR) codes to be used for payment of bills from the Assembly.
She admonished the market women and the business community to embrace innovation to bring development to the people of Accra.
