The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Os­man Nuhu Sharu­butu, has urged the public to pay taxes in order to facilitate national development. According to him, the payment of taxes was an obligation of the people towards socio- economic growth of the country. "We should be able to raise revenue, to be able to support government to execute the devel­opment agenda, so our refusal to pay our taxes means that there will be no funds for government to do that and we cannot also hold them accountable," the National Chief Imam emphasised. Sheikh Sharubutu made the call when the Board and Management of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) paid a courtesy call on him at his residence in Accra, on Thursday. The religious engagement was part of the activities to mark GRA tax education month, and to sen­sitise the public to the fact that tax payment was a civic responsibilities and obligations of the citizens. Sheikh Sharubutu called on all Muslims, especially business own­ers, to pay their taxes promptly and regularly, to enable the government to generate the needed revenue to invest in developmental projects. "Our state of indebtedness is something that is unpalatable to us, and the management of GRA has made it clear to us that one of the means by which we can help ourselves out of indebtedness is to honour our tax obligations. "The Holy Quran asks us to be supporters of one another and not be being supporters of each other is destructive.