THE Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), yesterday, officially relocated all its branch offices to the former CLICO Building on Camp Street in Georgetown.
It happened after the Board of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) granted the GRA’s request to occupy the premises.

When the Guyana Chronicle visited the new GRA headquarters yesterday, staff members were, so far, settling in the various departments on the ground floor.
Despite several challenges with which the agency was faced earlier this year, regarding the relocation, the GRA managed to work through them.
Previously, there were seven different locations at which the GRA’s services were being provided. However, the focus was to concentrate on consolidating, cutting costs and making management more effective by having it in one location.
GRA Commissioner General, Mr. Khurshid Sattaur had said that the departments to be housed in Camp Street are the Customs and Trade Administration, which was on Main Street; Licence and Revenue Division at Princes and Smyth Streets; the Value-Added Tax (VAT) and Income Tax Divisions at Charlotte and Albert Streets and General Post Office (GPO) Building, respectively, and the Human Resources and Finance Division and the Secretariat on Lamaha Street, all in the city, too.

All settled into their cubicles at the new GRA location on Camp Street. (Cullen Bess-Nelson photos)

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He said the GRA had been promised the use of the unfinished edifice at High and Princes Streets but, due to the delays in its completion, the planned occupancy was put on hold.
Sattaur had said, too, that, given the concerns for parking at offices such as in Smyth Street, the GRA was making adequate arrangements for that at the new location.
He said the properties that would be left unoccupied by the move to Camp Street are now free for other usage by the government.
A contract for US$169,000 was approved for the supply of structured cabling and switching network in Camp Street and, similarly, approval was given for a further US$196,000 for the supply and installation of IP PBX equipment there.