{"id":102780,"date":"2023-12-01T15:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/enugu-govt-seals-16-institutions-over-alleged-tax-evasion"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:55:36","slug":"enugu-govt-seals-16-institutions-over-alleged-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/enugu-govt-seals-16-institutions-over-alleged-tax-evasion","title":{"rendered":"Enugu govt seals 16 institutions over alleged tax evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Enugu State Government, on Friday, sealed the premises of 16 corporate institutions, including schools, hotels and consulting firms in different parts of Enugu metropolis, over alleged tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service (ES-IRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, disclosed this at his maiden news briefing on the operations of the service.<\/p>\n<p>Nnamani said the organisation decided to embark on the exercise following the alleged refusal by the owners and management of the businesses to respond to government\u2019s repeated reminder letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have written to them severally but they thought it was business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we approached the court, and the court gave us authority to seal the premises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The state IRS boss further said that the companies and businesses in Enugu State, since 2015, had not paid taxes, amounting to several millions of naira, to the state.<\/p>\n<p>Nnamani said this was the reason people did not see any reason to pay tax under the current administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who pay tax in Enugu State are not up to 10 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are losing huge amounts of money to tax defaulters every month,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the current government is determined to provide amenities for the people, using the internally generated revenue that is not forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government recently flagged off the construction of 71 roads in the state capital, among several others, and we need money to execute all these projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people do not pay their taxes, where then do we get the required money to execute such people-oriented projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want our people to understand this and cooperate with us, in the interest of the state,\u201d Nnamani said.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS chairman also said that tax is a contribution by citizens and residents toward the development of society.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, urged the people to join hands with the government to develop the state by paying their taxes, regularly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can assure you that at the end of this administration, Enugu State will not be the same again,\u201d Nnamani said.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the Peter Mbah-led administration had achieved over 200 per cent service delivery in the past seven months of the administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Enugu State Government, on Friday, sealed the premises of 16 corporate institutions, including schools, hotels and consulting firms in different parts of Enugu metropolis, over alleged tax evasion. The Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service (ES-IRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, disclosed this at his maiden news briefing on the operations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":102779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,662,254],"class_list":["post-102780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-enugu","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Enugu govt seals 16 institutions over alleged tax evasion - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/enugu-govt-seals-16-institutions-over-alleged-tax-evasion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Enugu govt seals 16 institutions over alleged tax evasion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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