This was contained in a communique after the meeting of the Forum in Enugu on Thursday.
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The Federal High Court had on Aug. 9, declared that it was Rivers government and not the FIRS that should collect Value Added Tax, (VAT) and Personal Income Tax in Rivers.
According to a statement by the Director General of LCCI, Dr. Chinyere Almona, the current sharing formula is a major factor for the Value Added Tax imbroglio between state governments and the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
In the quest to resolve the issues and doubts, three fundamental and basic tax issues as stated by the following judicial decisions need to be restated and noted. What are they?
The federal tax agency is also requesting the federal lawmakers to approve for it, the establishment of the Federal Revenue Court of Nigeria.
The firm’s position was contained in an article published on its website. Titled “Reputational Risks and Tax: MultiChoice as Case Study”, the article stated that the FIRS may have adopted a faulty computational premise as well as given an impression that it is prejudiced against foreign companies operating in Nigeria.
The Governor spoke at a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt, the state capital, while addressing business owners.
Following the milestone ruling, the Lagos State Government has rightly expressed its readiness to begin the collection of VAT in accordance with the judgment.
In an analysis of the ruling contained in its PwC Tax Alert posted on its website on Wednesday, the firm stated the TAT did not refer to any of the three conditions necessary for the issuance of an order to compel payment of N900bn, but focused on the order for statutory deposit.
The five-member TAT led by its chairman, Professor A. B. Ahmed, issued the order following an application to it by the counsel to FIRS.
The FIRS issued the directive following numerous enquiries to the service in view of a recent judgment obtained by the Rivers State Government at the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, which ruled that states, and not the Federal Government, are constitutionally empowered to collect VAT.
It is very sad with the number of anonymous letters and messages I got from both men and women who were duped or those that successfully gained an employment into the civil service in Nigeria.
The steering committee is headed by the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva.
The Senate directive was sequel to the consideration of report of Senate Public Accounts Committee on the 2015 Audited Report
The FIRS disclosed this in a statement by its Director, Communications and Liaison Department, Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad.
Mr Bassey Essien, Executive Secretary, NALPGAM, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
The Remita Payment Gateway platform for private sector and government payments, has been integrated with the FIRS’s new TaxPro Max e-filling platform to automate tax filing, enable hassle-free registration, ease tax payments as well as provide a single-view of transaction records.
MIIVOC’s Executive Director, Dr. Walter Duru, who gave the hint while addressing newsmen in Owerri, Tuesday, also disclosed that arrangements are in top gear with some other public institutions to enhance their capacity on the FOI Act.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Director, Communications and Liaison Department of FIRS, Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, in Abuja on Thursday.
The Executive Chairman of FIRS, Muhammad Nami, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.