FIRS drags Katsina LGs to court over VAT For allegedly withholding Tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) amounting to millions of naira, the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) has dragged five local government councils from Katsina State before the North-West zonal office of Tax Appeal Tribunal sitting in Kaduna. Chairman of the tribunal, Bashir Abdullahi Albasu, adjourned the case till October 15, 2014 for report of settlement. Counsel for FIRS, Mr Nasambo Mohammed and Mr Raji Mukhtar had told the tribunal that the five local government councils of Mani, Batsari, Dutsi, Daura and Baure had, “at various times, collected taxes and refused to remit them to the FIRS. “FIRS was suing Mani Local Government for failure and refusal to pay withholding tax and value added tax for the years 2009 to 2011, in the cumulative total sum of N54,338,787.56,” he said. “We are also suing Batsari Local Government for failure of the council to pay withholding tax and value added tax, between the years 2009 and 2011, with a total cumulative value of N18,803,573.60; while Dutsi Local Government is sued for failure to pay withholding tax and value added tax, between the years 2009 and 2011, with cumulative total value of N41,836,170.64.” “We also urge this honourable tribunal to look at our matter between Daura Local Government for failure to pay withholding tax and value added tax, between the years 2009 and 2011, with a total cumulative value of N34,341,185.79 and Baure Local Government for failure to pay withholding tax and value added tax, between the years 2009 and 2011, with a total cumulative value of N70,847,781.65,” he said. Counsel representing the five local councils from Katsina, Mr A. A. Ibrahim, from the Ministry of Justice, Katsina State, pleaded with the tribunal for a period to negotiate out of court settlement with the appellant.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:28:36 +0000
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