NEWS!! LASG shuts 6 firms over N18.73m tax liabilities
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS)
on Wednesday sealed six companies for failure
to remit N18.73 million personal income taxes of
their workers to the state government.
The Assistant Head of Distrain Unit of
the LIRS, Mrs Oluwalomona Ekosanmi,
disclosed this to the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos after an
enforcement exercise.
Ekosanmi, who led the enforcement
team, said that the affected companies
had tax liabilities of between 12 months
and six years.
Ekosanmi urged firms operating in the
state to regularly remit personal income
taxes of their workers to the service to
avoid any embarrassment and
disruption that would come with
distrain.
“Tax-payment is a civic responsibility of
everyone because it is a major source of
government’s revenue and also the only
means government can provide the basic
amenities for its citizens to improve
their living standards,” she said.
Meanwhile, some of the affected
companies complained of unfair
treatment from LIRS, saying that the
service did not notify them before
coming to close their premises.
Ekosanmi, however, said that LIRS
usually sent two letters of notice to the
defaulting companies before they
embarked on the clamp-down exercise.
According to her, LIRS sends tax
liabilities demand notice and notice of
intent to the affected companies as
required by the Personal Income Tax Act
(Amendment) of 2011.
“Each of the letters that we sent to the
companies was received and
acknowledged by any of companies’ staff
or the management of the firms.
“So, for some of the companies to say
that LIRS did not notify them before
coming to seal their premises is not an
excuse.
“Normally, firms are not even supposed
to wait for anybody to remind them of
their statutory obligation of remitting
taxes to the government of the land
where they operate,” she said.
The team leader said that the
enforcement exercise would continue
until tax-payers imbibed the culture of
voluntary tax compliance.
The affected companies includes an oil
and gas firm, a paint manufacturing
firm, an electrical firm and a
conglomerate, among others.
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