GRA chases Royal House daughter: over one million dollar cheque gift

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has invited Lady Deaconess Naa Dromo Korankye-Ankrah, daughter of the General Overseer of the Royal House Chapel International, over what the Authority described as non-payment of income tax for her company, NDKA Star and reports that she had received an amount of one million American Dollars ($ 1,000,000) from friends as a gift during her recent wedding.

The GRA has requested to meet with Lady Deaconess Naa Dromo, daughter of Apostle-General Sam Korankye-Ankrah on Friday July 23, at 10 in the forenoon for a discussion on the two issues

Naa Dromo recently had a talk-of-the-town wedding that raised eyebrows and dropped jaws.

A video of the wedding ceremony captured a group of female friends of Naa Dromo with a dummy cheque and one of them announced to guests that they were donating to the newly married couple an amount of one million American Dollars ($ 1,000,000) as a gift.

The announced denotation became a subject of media reportage although neither the couple nor the Apostle General himself was quoted to have made any comment on the incident.

Barely a two weeks after the media reports, the Ghana Revenue Authority wrote to Naa Dromo Korankye-Ankrah and requested to meet with her to have some discussions on her tax obligation over the said $1million gift as well as issues over her company’s taxes.

The letter, dated July 15, 2021, red in part: “Information available to the GRA indicates that you have received an amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as gift from friends.

“Further checks have established that you own a business registered as an enterprise under the name NDKA Star. Our records also show that you have never filed your personal income tax returns to the GRA and that you have two taxpayer identification numbers (TIN)”

It is not clear how the letter got into the public domain but The New Publisher’s checks from the GRA indicates that it is an authentic letter and that the Authority has a Special Compliance Assistance Programme that that invites several categories of persons to  assist them make accurate disclosures of them incomes to file the requisite taxes to avoid the imposition of interests, penalties and other sanctions.

Korankye-Ankrah Explains

In what appears to be a curious coincidence, Apostle General Sam Korankye –Ankrah, after the GRA had written to his daughter, decided to comment publicly on the supposed $1 million donation.

He said the presentation was an act of faith from a female group in the church and that it did not contain any physical cash that has landed in any account

The General Overseer of the Royal House Chapel International, Rev. Sam Korankye-Ankrah has clarified that the 1 million Dollar cheque presented to his daughter, Naa Dromo and her husband, by her friends during her recent wedding, was not real money but an act of faith.

A Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) letter circulating on social media has the tax body seeking a meeting with Naa Dromo Korankye-Ankrah to spell out her tax liabilities on the supposed gift.

However, the Apostle General, as Rev. Korankye-Ankrah is affectionately called, explains that the cheque is one that can only be described as a “faith cheque.”

He said his daughter’s friends acted on faith, and he personally subscribes to the faith with which the friends presented the cheque.

The Apostle General said: “They presented the dummy cheque of $1 million but people did not get the idea behind the presentation. They thought it was real money. What these people are saying is that one day during occasions like these, they will be able to present a cheque of $1 million and that is the statement they are making.

“I thank God that they are prophesying that one day, I’ll be able to gift my daughter one million dollars. The cheque is a faith cheque. I am being very careful at the moment how to choose my words because I do not want to present them in a manner that looks like they are joking. Because what you think is fun today, will become a reality tomorrow.”

The GRA cannot tax what does not exist in the physicals and if Naa Dromo shows up with her accounts to clarify the matters with evidence, there is most likely to be an amicable understanding on both sides.