The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has directed its legal Department to compile reports on all tax defaulter for prosecution, Mr Kofi Nti, the Commissioner General of the Authority hinted on Monday.

He said tax payers who had also failed to file their annual tax returns would also be prosecuted.

Mr Ntii said this in a speech read on his behalf at the launch of the Bono, East and Ahafo Regional Tax and Good Governance Week held in Sunyani.

The week, being organized by the GRA and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, creates common platform for tax payers and the GRA to interact and motivate the former to pay and file their annual tax returns as well.

Mr Nti explained that payments and filing of annual tax returns were not a choice, but rather a constitutional requirement, saying defaulters committed serious economic offense.

He said until citizens paid tax regularly and promptly, the government could not mobilize the required revenue needed for development.

In a speech read for him, Mr Evans Opoku-Bobie, the Ahafo Regional Minister, said revenue from taxes remained the major source of revenue for the government, saying Ghana beyond aid agenda could not be achieved if citizens failed to pay their taxes.

Mr Opoku-Bobie therefore advised tax payers to endeavour to pay taxes, so that the government would also mobilize more revenue to address their development needs.