This is because residents of Ilorin, the state capital, woke up on Monday to to notice that Igbo traders have shut their shops and businesses again, as they did recently when they protested alleged increment in taxes imposed by the Kwara state Internal Revenue Service, KWIRS.
could not ascertain what led to the breakdown of the earlier reconciliation reached between the two parties. However, sources at the state revenue service office on Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin, revealed that the agency had rejected 'a central pool' mode of tax payment advanced by the Igbo traders. 'The revenue service is insisting that all Igbo traders and business owners must pay their tax individually and not as a collective body of traders,' the sources added.
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