President Akufo-Addo has stated that from the second quarter of this year, all national ID numbers will become SSNIT numbers in order to increase our SSNIT enrollers to 15 million.
He said, very soon they will link the National ID to all sim cards, bank accounts, birth and death registry, DVLA documents, NHIS cards and passport.
According to him, for this first time, they have enrolled 15.5 million people onto the National ID card system (The Ghana Card) and they will complete the process this year.
“From 1st April all national ID numbers will become tax identification numbers,” he said.
He said at the end of 2016 only 750,000 people had TIN numbers; the increase to 15.5million in just 4 years is simply phenomenal.
He said this during his first State of the Nation address of his second term on Tuesday, March 9, 2021.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Evans Boateng