[2012]DLHC7913 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">KWASI NYANTAKYI OWIREDU</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0;mso-font-width: 105%">COMMISSIONER GEN. GH. REVENUE AUTHORITY</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri">(</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#2B342F;mso-font-width: 105%">DEFENDANT</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri">)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri">[HIGH COURT </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:105%">(COMMERCIAL DIVISION)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">ACCRA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri">]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:105%">SUIT NO: CM/TAX/0142/2019</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> DATE: 20<sup>TH</sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">DECEMBER, 2012</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:105%">ANGELA QUARDE ESQ., JUSTICE ABDULA! ESQ., FOR THE APPELLANT.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:105%">MAXWELL OWUSU BOADI ESQ., FOR RESPONDENT.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri">JUDGMENT</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.1pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">This appeal, filed on the 3<span style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;mso-text-raise:3.0pt">rd </span>of December 2018, seeks an order of the court to set aside the<span style="letter-spacing:-1.1pt"> </span>ruling<span style="letter-spacing:-1.0pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-1.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-1.0pt"> </span>Commissioner<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt"> </span>General<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>made<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-1.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-1.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">25<span style="position:relative;top:-4.5pt;mso-text-raise:4.5pt">th</span></span><span style="position:relative;top:-4.5pt;mso-text-raise:4.5pt;letter-spacing:-2.3pt"> </span>August<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>2017<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>1<span style="position:relative; top:-5.0pt;mso-text-raise:5.0pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:-1.45pt"> </span></span>November 2018.<span style="letter-spacing:1.7pt"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing: 1.9pt"> </span>appellant<span style="letter-spacing:2.3pt"> </span>also<span style="letter-spacing:2.05pt"> </span>seeks<span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span>order<span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:1.8pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span>court<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span>directed<span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt"> </span>Commissioner</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:11.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">General to allow the appellant to have an upfront deduction of his monthly mortgage interest instead of waiting for a year before having access to same.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:8.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">The appellant herein has a mortgage with the Ghana Home Loans Limited and pays interest on the said mortgage at the end of every month. The appellant proposed to get his<span style="letter-spacing:-1.55pt"> </span>employers<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt"> </span>deduct<span style="letter-spacing:-1.15pt"> </span>upfront,<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-1.6pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-1.15pt"> </span>end<span style="letter-spacing:-1.0pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-1.35pt"> </span>every<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>month,<span style="letter-spacing:-1.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-1.05pt"> </span>interest<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt"> </span>paid<span style="letter-spacing:-1.0pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-1.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-1.4pt"> </span>mortgage monthly.<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt"> </span>appellant's<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>emplo