Tag: Registrar General’s Department
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Registrar-General deploys Central Beneficial Ownership Register for extractives; other high risk sectors
The Register-General Jemima Oware, has announced the deployment of a new Central Beneficial Ownership Register for all companies operating in the country. According to her, the deployment will begin from the 21st to the 28th of September, 2020, with the extractive industry and other high risk sectors like banks and other financial institutions. The use…
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Registrar-General’s Dep’t extends date for filing of annual returns again to 31st Dec.
The Registrar-General’s Department has extended the deadline for filing of Annual Returns by six more months from 31st July to 31st December, 2020. According to the Registrar General’s Department, this has been due to the continuous spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability of companies to hold their Annual General Meetings. A statement issued…
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Registrar General issues guidelines for virtual AGMs
The Registrar General’s Department has issued modalities for companies to hold their Annual General Meetings using virtual platforms. The Department says it has to be notified before such meetings are held. “The Registrar-General should be notified before such a virtual meeting is held. The notification can be submitted to the Head Office in Accra or…
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Registrar-Generals Department extends date for filing of annual returns for 3 months
As part of measures to alleviate the economic burden on taxpayers due to the novel Coronavirus pandemic, the Registrar-Generals Department (RGD), has extended the deadline for the filing of annual returns from April 30th, to July 31st, 2020, for all companies whose financial year ended by 31st December, 2019. According to the Department (RGD), companies…
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Registrar Generals Dept., other state agencies shut their doors over partial lockdown
Several businesses that are not in the essential services category including key state institutions have shut down their offices for the next two weeks in line with the partial lockdown. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in imposing a lockdown on the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area including Kasoa in the Central Region, and the Greater Kumasi…
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Registrar General urges companies to update their records to avoid deletion
The Registrar General, Jemima Oware, says her outfit will continue to sanction businesses that fail to file their annual returns or update their records with the Registrar General’s Department. She told Citi Business News it is illegal for any company which has not met these requirements, to continue operations per the Companies Act. The latest…
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More DKM Microfinance customers to be paid from next month
The Registrar-General, the Official Liquidator for defunct Diamond Microfinance Limited (DKM), has announced that it will from 1st August, begin the payment process of dividends to depositors who submitted new claims as well as depositors who were unable to validate their claims back in February this year but have since done so. The announcement follows a…
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Registrar General wins case against journalist at NMC
The National Media Commission (NMC) has directed an investigative journalist and Editor of the Awake newspaper, Emmanuel Efo Kosi Senyo to retract and apologise to the Registrar General, Jemima Oware following his publication of a story which allegedly cited the Registrar General of colluding in the allocation of dividends to some beneficiaries of a Will.…
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Registrar General prepares new law to protect local producers
Producers of traditional goods will soon be able to protect the rights of their goods as well as generate the right revenue from them. The Registrar General’s Department believes this will be achieved with the new law on the protection of intellectual properties of local producers. The comment also come on the back of the…
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Biz tax returns deadline set for April 2018
Companies and Partnerships that have not yet filed their Annual returns for the last three years (2015 to 2017) are to do so before Monday April 30, 2018. This is a directive from the Registrar General’s Department (RGD). Failure to adhere to the directive after the deadline will attract a rollover of penalty for the…