Seth Terkper

thumb Seth Emmanuel Terkper is a Ghanaian chartered accountant and politician who served as the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning of Ghana from 2013 to 2017 under the John Mahama Government. Quotes Well, I was working with the then National Revenue Secretariat which was one of the pioneer attempts to remove revenue agencies from the civil service and to make them semi-autonomous and as a result, we now have revenue authorities in Africa and other places. Then I had just qualified as an accountant. I wanted to improve my education further so I went to the Kennedy School to do my Masters. On my return I was told that my next assignment would be coordinator of the Value Added Tax project. So that’s how I ended up being coordinator. Both. We had a lot of experience with reforms internally already. I always say I was a product of reforms from the first day I joined the National Revenue Secretariat and after my national service. So we had done significant reforms and we were drawing on those. There were no major complications. So with DFID (Department for International Development) assistance, at the time they were called ODA (Official Development Assistance), we got the Crown Agents of UK (United Kingdom) which had assisted many countries, to help us do the programming. Well, after the first failure, we expanded the steering committee a bit. There was more consultation with the stakeholders. More stakeholders were brought into the education process; more stakeholders into the consultative process, and then parliament also came on board, because of the need to take the VAT bill back to parliament to have it enacted. In the planning, a sixth element of policy and legislation was added in terms of the proposed outline. INNOVATIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL SOCIETIES External links Category:Living people Category:Politicians from Ghana