The Federal Inland Revenue
Service (FIRS) has commenced moves to recover over N3 billion from taxes
and other deductions made by the Cross River State Government from
contractors and other sources, but were not remitted to the federal
government as statutorily provided.
The move came to the fore
during a recent visit of a delegation of the service to the state to
discuss the way forward on how to get the money remitted to the service.
Led by the coordinator of the
FIRS for Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River State, Mr. Innocent Ohagwua,
officials of the FIRS met with the state deputy governor, Professor
Ivara Esu , in his office where they spoke of their mission to recover
the unremitted funds for the federal government.
According to extracts of
recordings of the meeting held last week which were made available to
some newspapers, the FIRS coordinator said: “So, we are here sir, to
raise some of the outstanding issues, and some of those outstanding
issues. Without wasting your time, if we need to quantify it in terms of
outstanding, they are in excess of N3 billion.”
Ohagwua said though the FIRS
would prefer the arrears of outstanding deductions, especially taxes
deducted from contractors and others, to be remitted service in bulk
sum, they were prepared to provide a window of opportunity to the state
to make such remittances in instalments.
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by Bassey Inyang in Calabar/Thisday
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