SOCIETY OF WOMEN IN TAXATION, (SWIT) HOLDS IT’S THIRD EDITION CONFERENCE IN GHANA, ACCRA
The third Edition of 2025 SWIT Conference Organized, brought together women tax professionals, tradeswomen and their allies including employers, labour representatives, government, educators, community partners, and experts inclusion from across the sub-region to deliberate on strengthening women’s role in economic transformation.
Delegates shared experiences, learn strategies and gain skills to deepened the understanding of how women’s empowerment can help promote innovation and how trade can contribute to provide an opportunity to innovation’s role in enhancing economic contributions of women, particularly in the informal sector.
The event was under the theme: “Leveraging Technology To Unlock Revenue Potential Of the Informal Sector For International Development”*
Addresing at the Conference, Madam Esi Sam,Chairperson of the Society for Women in Taxation (SWIT) Ghana and Vice-Chairperson of SWIT West Africa, underscored the importance of the conference as to empower women in tax matters and revenue mobilisation.
She stressed that women play a very vital role in the country and research shows that women form a significant portion of the population in the informal sector,adding that there must be measures that will help empower women to pay taxes in order to boost revenue mobilization and empowerment in revenue mobilisation.
On her part, Mrs. Elsie Appau,Commissional General Technical adviser of GRA,onbehalf of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissional General, commended SWIT organisation for their contribution in Taxation.
She hinted that Ghana Revenue Authority has started a new tax system called “Modified Taxation” aimed at improving tax collection from informal sector workers that is designed to make it easier for small business owners and traders to pay taxes to help expand Ghana’s tax base and ensure fairness.
She therefore, called on the public to support the rollout of the system and suggested that tax policies has been designed to encourage and support women and hinted, women constitute a large percentage of the population and play a pivotal role in sustaining households and communities.
Mrs. Elsie Appau therefore argued the need to implement measures that encourage women participation in economic growth and highlighted that a significant percentage of women operate within the informal sector, makes their contributions and voices essential in shaping policies on economic transition and revenue mobilisation.
She seized the opportunity and called for greater recognition of women’s influence in policy matters, stressing that their active participation is key to sustainable economic growth.
Story by Janet Kwaakye
