THE Tamale Collection point of the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) has seized 50 bales of suspected uncustomed wax prints abandoned by their owners in a bush near a CEPS barrier at Yapei on the Tamale-Kintampo highway.
Briefing the media in Tamale, the Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Tamale Collection Sector, Mr Ernest Frimpong-Nuamah, said the items were suspected to have been manufactured from China, saying “they are usually the cheap products our people buy to disturb the local industry here in Ghana”.
According to Mr Frimpong-Nuamah, based upon a tip-off that some smuggled goods had been abandoned around Yapei, he detailed his officers to be on the lookout but sensing danger, the owners of the items decided to abandon the goods for fear of being arrested.
He said over GH¢ 11,000 would have been collected as customs duty on the wax prints.
The commissioner expressed regret that due to smuggling and other cases of tax evasion by businessmen and traders, the government lost on the average four hundred million Ghana cedis a year in expected revenue from duties on such goods.
Mr Frimpong-Nuamah equally advised traders to pay their duties in order to improve on the revenue base of the country.
He observed that importers should desist from enriching foreign industries to the detriment of the local ones by patronising Ghanaian industries.
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