Ayodele Subair, the Executive Chairman of LIRS, conveyed this in a public notice released by the agency on Tuesday.
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The LIRC chief made this known while featuring as a guest on a Channels Television programme: “The Tax Talk.”
It said this was part of the Lagos State Government policy on the ease of doing business in the State.
According to law, the filing of company’s annual returns expires on January 31 of every fiscal year, and attracts stiff penalties for defaulters.
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service said on Monday that it had launched a renewed enforcement exercise against defaulting taxpayers by sealing eight companies for failure to file returns and payment of taxes.
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service is to generate N500 billion toward the implementation of the 2020 budget, the state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Sam Egube, has said.
Kashifu Inuwa, the Director General of NITDA, made this known on Friday in a statement he signed and issued in Abuja
The Director of Legal Services of the LIRS, Seyi Alade, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of a tax law enforcement exercise, conducted in Lagos on Tuesday.
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Seyi Alade, the Director, Legal Services of the LIRS, said this after a statewide tax law enforcement exercise in Lagos, adding that the firms owed the state government N354.75 million in unpaid taxes.
Speaking on the statewide tax enforcement exercise, the Director Legal Services of the LIRS, Seyi Alade, on Friday warned that defaulting Hotels, Restaurants and Event Centers will henceforth face the full wrath of the law if they fail to deduct and remit their taxes as provided by the law.
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They have also asked for greater engagement and consultation by government on tax issues while charging tax officials to be more humane and eschew undue harassment of their members in the process of collection.
The prosecutor, Babaji Ishaku, told the court that the case was reported by Abiodun Kehinde of LIRS, Iju Tax Station
The LIRS has in the last few months embarked on massive advocacy and enlightenment programmes, taking Lagos residents and taxpayers through a process of education on the laws bordering on tax administration and the need and benefits of paying taxes as and when due
The same Protea Hotel was sealed by the revenue service over evasion of N148.88 million consumption and hotel occupancy taxes on June 9
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According to her, the company’s workers kept the enforcement team at the reception room for more than 35 minutes without attending to the officials
The chairman said the increase in the IGR to N237 billion in 2013 from N15 billion in 1999 were the fallouts of sustained mobilisation and tax education in the state
Folashade Coker-Afolayan, who is the Head of Distrain Unit of the service, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that after meeting their obligations, the companies were reopened