Grace Court Hotel & Suites, owned by Senator Sam Egwu, a former Governor of Ebonyi State, has been sealed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service over sundry tax liabilities.
Egwu’s hotel, located at 14, NNA Street, Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, was owing about N5 million in sundry tax liabilities such as Company Income Tax, Excess Dividend Tax and Value Added Tax.
The FIRS enforcement team met stiff resistance as a man said to be a son of the sitting senator resisted them.
But through the intervention of the Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State Command, Titus Lamorde, who dispatched a special team of operatives, the FIRS team eventually executed the warrant of destraint earlier served the hotel management by the revenue-collecting agency.
Also, the FIRS team shut the Sacramental Resources Limited situated at Water Works Road, Abakaliki for an outstanding 2016 tax debt of N454,000.
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