DEMONSTRATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF POS DEVICES TO REVENUE CENTRES

The African Smart Towns Network (ASTON) which begun in 2019 has officially ended on31st March, 2023.

The ASToN project seeks to digitize the revenue systems of the Assembly and to gradually move away from the manual collections of levies and tolls.

The development partners of KMA namely the GIZ assisted the Assembly to developed a software- dLRev whiles UNCDF also came in with capacity building and data collection.

The Mayor, Hon. Samuel Pyne stated that, the Assembly’s quest to digitize its revenue collections is to eliminate all forms revenue leakages whiles enhancing efficiency, accountability and improve services to the public.

“in tackling the challenges in revenue generation and mobilization at the Assembly, we sort for support from some of our development partner and we have been able to build a database of almost all businesses and properties in Kumasi and so we needed

to procure devices for our revenue officers that would help raid of the human element”.