GRA SAID I OWE ABOUT GH¢9 BILLION TAX, THEY EVEN BACKDATED TO MY ‘BANDARA ERA’ – Shatta Wale Reveals

“I have been paying for my Google map service for over three years, I pay $8,000, $7,000 and nobody is paying attention to it but ever since they heard that Shaxi is in business, GRA and co, have been chasing me with tax. Where were they when I was struggling? I have been paying taxes for music that I had not even made money from. GRA is taxing me for my music, they say I owe about GH¢9 billion, backdated to the Bandana era where I didn’t even make money from my music,” he fumed during a discussion with GTV’s Kafui Dey.

Shatta went on to say that artists would not have had trouble meeting their financial obligations and paying taxes if the nation had a stronger structure in place for music royalties.

“With all these things happening, when I talk about the royalty system nobody supports me, and it’s sad. Sometimes I feel like we are too scared to fight the problem and that is why I am vocal. I keep saying that if the government had done certain things for musicians, we would have been paying tax,” he added.