Government’s maiden fully-integrated payments processing and settlements platform, ghana.gov.gh is expected to go live today after a formal launch of the platform by the Vice President, Dr Mahammudu Bawumia later today.
The digital service and revenue collection platform, created to provide a single point of access to Government of Ghana services for the public sector, is in pursuit of the government’s vision of digitizing the economy and modernizing the way government pays its bills as well as collection of fees and charges for the benefit of all citizens, residents and visitors.
The service portal seeks to process all payments and transfers (both electronic and cash) against predefined service flows of each MDA and MMDA and also manage post-payment workflow, customer notification, feedback and service ratings. Thereby enabling the Government of Ghana fulfill its goal of creating a cash-lite economy.
A key rationale for creating the ghana.gov.gh platform is to cure the inefficiencies in Government’s domestic revenue collection, particularly MMDA collections, which leads to huge revenue losses every year.
It is estimated that about 10 -15 per cent of government’s collections are lost through theft, fraud and other schemes.
With the launch and subsequent implementation of the platform, government expects to see a significant boost in revenue collection. Government estimates that digitizing collections via the ghana.gov.gh platform will enable it improve revenue by some Ghs 3 billion annually.
