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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has alleged that the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, had secretly written to the National Assembly, through the office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, seeking to transfer the collection of Value Added Tax to the exclusive legislative list.<\/p>\n

The Governor said the FIRS\u2019s move came after the Rivers State Government, through the State Attorney General, challenged the collection of VAT by the Federal Government agency in court.<\/p>\n

Wike said this during an interactive session with corporate organizations in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Governor, who described the action of the FIRS as another form of corruption, said, \u201cyou wrote to the National Assembly through the office of the deputy speaker of the House of reps to amend the constitution when we were already challenging that it is not your responsibility to collect VAT.<\/p>\n

FIRS public notice on deployment of automated tax administration solution<\/p>\n

\u201cYou knew that what you were doing was not right. You now, on the 1st of July, wrote a letter to the National Assembly, through the office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, to insert VAT under the Exclusive Legislative list.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you know that VAT is not under the Exclusive list you now surreptitiously come through the back for them to amend the constitution so that you can have VAT under your jurisdiction\u201d.<\/p>\n

Governor Wike alleged that the FIRS had written to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to have the suit transferred from Port Harcourt to Abuja for logistics reasons which was however rejected by the head of the court.<\/p>\n

Wike vowed to continue fighting for what is right as long as he remains governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has alleged that the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, had secretly written to the National Assembly, through the office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, seeking to transfer the collection of Value Added Tax to the exclusive legislative list. 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