Bobie-Ansah, Public Relations and Tax Education officer at the Internal Revenue Service says it is mandatory for all hawkers in Ghana to pay taxes to Government to help provide infrastructure, education and other services beneficial to all Ghanaians. He said this in an interview on hawking in Ghana and whether hawkers pay taxes. Explaining further, he said since all income earners in Ghana needed to pay taxes according to Internal Revenue Act, 2000 (Act 592), there was the need for hawkers to also add theirs to the national kitty. However several attempts were made by the agency to get hawkers to pay but it proved futile due to the fact that hawkers were not static but moved from place to place. He added that there were also few tax officers in In a bid to overcome this problem, the IRS introduced the Tax Stamp in February 2005 as a revenue generation method. According to him this system allows for easy identification of small-scale self-employed persons in the informal sector like peo