ALL of the arms of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will be relocated to the former CLICO Building on Camp Street, Georgetown, by December, Secretary to the Cabinet Dr. Roger Luncheon reported yesterday.

He said the intention is to have 100 percent relocation by that time and, already, rented facilities previously housing the VAT (Value Added Tax) unit have been vacated and the staff put in Camp Street.
Luncheon, speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing in Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, in Georgetown, said that in order to accommodate the hundreds of GRA staff and the thousands of customers, the Camp Street facility needs significant and continuous upgrading and particularly, proper facilities management.
Just recently, Cabinet gave its no-objection to two contracts, for US$365,000, in pursuit of the relocation exercise.
An award for US$169,000 was approved for the supply of structured cabling and switching network on the Camp Street building and, similarly, approval was given for a further US$196,000 for the acquisition and installation of IP PBX

equipment.
“These are funds that are being utilised by the Revenue Authority in its relocation exercise from all of its locations in Georgetown to this single location,” Luncheon explained.

EFFICIENT WORK
He had told the Guyana Chronicle that authorities decided to move all of the GRA offices to one location, probably because of cost considerations and, also, to allow for more efficient work by the agency.
“Right now, there are about seven different locations at which GRA services are provided…at Eccles, Ruimveldt, North Georgetown, etc. The interest, of course, has been to concentrate, consolidate, cut cost and make more effective management in having it in one location,” said the Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS).
Meanwhile, GRA Commissioner General, Mr. Khurshid Sattaur had said that the departments to be housed in Camp Street are the Customs and Trade Administration (presently on Main Street), Licence Revenue Division (Princes and Smyth Streets), the Value-Added Tax and Income Tax Divisions (Charlotte and Albert Streets and General Post Office (GPO) Building, respectively, the Human Resources and Finance Division and the GRA Secretariat (Lamaha Street).
He said the GRA was promised the use of the unfinished edifice at High and Princes Streets but, due to the delays in the project, 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.