NULGE wants LGs to collect VAT, Borno advises South - Punch Newspapers

Sunday Aborisade, Adelani Adepegba, Dayo Ojerinde, Dogara Bitrus, Edward Nnachi, Tukur Muntari and Bola BamigbolThe National Union of Local Government Employees has said that the 744 local government councils should collect the Value Added Tax and not the Federal Inland Revenue Service or state governments.

On his part, Olatunji argued that VAT collection should be the responsibility of the local councils “since both companies and consumers reside within the LG areas.” Justice Haruna Tsammani, who delivered the ruling of the appellate court, ordered that the “the status quo ante bellum” be preserved and adjourned the matter till Thursday, September 16, 2021 to enable the parties to file their response to the application filed by the Lagos State Government to join the suit.

But the Chairman of the BSIRS, Alkali, stated in an interview with The PUNCH, “If the court decides to give the states the liberty to collect VAT, we in Borno will gladly do so. But bear in mind, not all states in the South-South, South-West and the South-East can generate enough revenues to sustain themselves.

It said it would continue with the implementation of the Value Added Tax Bill signed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday. But the Kano State Government said it was studying the situation before it would make a decision whether to support the FIRS or not. The Chairman, Ebonyi State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Okechukwu Ali, stated in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abakaliki on Sunday that the Assembly would look into the issues around VAT as championed by Rivers, Lagos and other states when it returned from recess.

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