The Postal and Courier Services Regulatory Commission has disclosed that it will start prosecuting all illegal operators in the coming months to rid the system of non-compliant businesses.
The move follows what has been described as the rise in fake courier services.
The latest caution by the Postal Courier Services Regulatory Commission comes after an initial exercise to register and license qualified operators.
Of the one hundred and thirty licensed operators, ninety-six (96) of them renewed their licenses leaving them in good standing.
But the conviction that there are illegal operators who are evading taxes and defrauding people to some extent, gives the regulator no option than to crack the whip.
Public Affairs Manager at the Postal Courier Services Regulatory Commission Nii Yeboah Edwin Burgesson disclosed that the commission is collaborating with the police to stop unlicensed operators.
“We are going to have a joint operation with the Ghana Police Service where for three days running we are going to clamp down on the services of illegal operators and these illegal operators include one-man operators who have motorbikes but have not come to the commission to have their operations regularized,” he told Citi Business News.
Defaulters are subject to as much as 500 penalty units and in some cases prosecutions not less than six months.
Meanwhile the GRA has sanctioned the Commission to clamp down on courier services who fail to comply with regulations at the various points of entry.
“The GRA has given us the opportunity to furnish them the list of operators in good standing especially those who operate at the ports. So all those who are not licensed are not allowed to clear their goods and we are going to carry on with those as well,” he concluded.
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Source: citibusinessnews.com
