The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS will continue to collect Value Added Tax, VAT following the ruling of the Court of Appeal on the matter.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, stated this in New York while speaking on the disagreement over the collection of VAT between FIRS and Rivers Government. He also explained that the ruling of the Court of Appeal that FIRS and the Rivers Government maintain status quo, favoured FIRS.
Malami said that it was Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS that had been collecting the VAT before the dispute arose, over which the Rivers government approached the High Court.
It would be recalled that the Rivers State Government had urged the Supreme Court to set aside the Court of Appeal’s September 10 ruling ordering it and FIRS to maintain status quo on the issue of VAT collection.
A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal headed by Haruna Tsammani, issued the order being challenged at the Supreme Court by the Rivers government.
