The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has arrested the Managing Director of Air Nigeria, Kinfe Kayssay, for alleged failure to remit about N4.9billion tax revenues due to the Federal Government.

The arrest of Mr. Kayssay is in pursuit of the drive by the tax Service to recover over N170.I billion outstanding taxes owed government by various public and private organisations as well as ensure that all taxpayers are captured in the tax net, the tax agency says.

Last May, the chief executive officers of seven Lagos-based engineering, telecommunications, cable television, and trading conglomerates were arrested over similar offences involving tax evasion totaling..Read more: http://premiumtimesng.com/news/5651-air_nigeria_ceo_arrested_over_n5billion_tax_debt.html

We know my Bros

THIEVES EVERYWHERE

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In two weeks the guy will gain his unlimited freedom

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN NAIJA U KNOW


ESPECIALLY DIS ONE DAT IBO MAN EBELE ODECHUKWU JONATHAN STILL DEY DIA

One of those private University might even award him an honourary degree in Taxation after his release

UNREPENTANT FRAUDSTERS IN HIGH PLACES IN NAIJA

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. . . I'm also owe d federal Govt. some money. so what? this guy is just trying to eat from the national cake. pls release him

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U de pay tax?

Here is Air Nigeria's side of the story, apparently they mailed this to their customers:


18 June 2012
INVASION OF AIR NIGERIA OFFICE BY FIRS
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) stormed Air Nigeria office on Monday, 18 June 2012, with mobile policemen armed with guns to demand for past taxes allegedly owed during the period when Mr. Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic was running Virgin Nigeria, now Air Nigeria. These taxes have been in dispute and needed to be reconciled and agreed upon.

The FIRS is however not patient with such reconciliations but resorted to a military approach in a civilian era.

Air Nigeria is not indebted to the government on current taxes since the acquisition of the airline by Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim, OFR. We therefore consider the FIRS action as uncivilized and condemnable.

We are at a loss as to what the FIRS has been doing for the past 8 years without collecting the taxes from previous management of the airline. We assure the general public that Air Nigeria cannot be intimidated by this crude approach and will not be ready to give bribe to any person no matter how highly placed. We will brief the general public as the issue progresses.

It should be noted that since the commencement of international operations on the Lagos - London route, Air Nigeria has become the object of an orchestrated attacks that show clearly that this is a case of the voice of Jacob and the hand of Esau. In following the external influence, local staff of the airline went on strike in May for May salary which the management has resolved amicably.

As the airline was coming out of that, the news of it being grounded by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) infiltrated town. Again, as the airline was coming out of this with a clean bill of health, barely two days after, the airline is yet invaded in a military manner. We suspect that one other line of action will be coming in the coming week to further attempt to damage us in the public eye; but we assure the instigator of such uncivilized approach that Air Nigeria will not compromise its corporate values and development strategy.

SIGNED
Samuel Ogbogoro
Media Relations Manager

there is something fishy about this airline.
i jut can't place my finger on it but it sure smells fishy.

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pointless

So it is ibo man that introduced corruption in nigeria.is not IBB that legalized looting in nigeria?

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Nigeria knows how to spoil things Imagine, I remember when Richard branson was running the airline but Yaradua reversed the terms on which OBJ attracted him in. With the way things are going we may not have an air nigeria soon

Its nothing new. The ED finance had already said so. Act 1 scene 2.

wonder why Nigerian buisnessmen makes fool of themselves in the open. Is Jimoh Ibrahim telling me he didnt go through the books of Virgin Nigeria before he took over the operations? Thought while buying a company d liabilty is yours unless stated odawise, the company should not come up with a silly excuse of witchunting. They should pay. Always hiding under one disguise or the other, the Govt should go ahead and arrest all those defaulters(tax) that flaunt ill gotten wealth. Am talking as if the Govt is even an upright one? Messed up country!

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ESPECIALLY DIS ONE DAT IBO MAN EBELE ODECHUKWU JONATHAN STILL DEY DIA

Perhaps your limited knowledge should know that your president's name is Goodluck 'EBELEMI' Jonathan.
A typical IJAW man with no Ibo connection whatsoever.
Furthermore if your 'LIMITATIONS' can allow you, then you should know the Ibos have the least percentage
in the LOOTING of the national treasury since independence. Their clever and no nonsense approach
to doing business which other parts of the country is too lazy to emulate is the simple reason why YOU ARE SO DELUDED.
Get enlightened if you can.

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Bro keep it posted GEJ is not an Igbo Man , the South South don't call themselves Igbo's neither do they agree they are Igbo thou they bear Igbo name

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Bro keep it posted GEJ is not an Igbo Man , the South South don't call themselves Igbo's neither do they agree they are Igbo thou they bear Igbo names

jude33084:

In two weeks the guy will gain his unlimited freedom

don't mind them dear, since they could let Farouk escape prosecution; is it air nigeria they won't let go. On-screen capture, off-screen release: EFCC's best tactise for addressing crime. Nuels

Nigeria is a country of criminals. No honest man left

Sorry, grow up

bigx:

U de pay tax?

your business?






naija is burning... and that ibo president ebele chukwudi jonathan goodluck is in brazil enjoying himself.

what president..

FIRS Sues Jimoh Ibrahim, Air Nigeria, for forgery, N5 billion Tax Fraud-NAN

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has filed charges of evading five years tax payment of N4.86 billion naira and forgery of Tax Clearance Certificate (TCC) against Air Nigeria.

A copy of the charge filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja was exclusively obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday.

Mr Jimoh Ibrahim, the company’s Chairman, Mr Kinfe Kahssaye, Managing Director and Air Nigeria Development Company Limited (formerly Virgin Nigeria Airways Ltd), were joined in the 10-count charge.

The suit comes barely 48 hours after the service arrested Kahssaye in Lagos on Monday.

He was flown to Abuja same day and detained by the service and released on Tuesday afternoon.

An official of FIRS, who confirmed his release to NAN, said the service met with Ibrahim on Tuesday, but did not reach any agreement on the payment of the tax.

In the charge, FIRS accused officials of the indigenous airline of illegally obtaining Tax Clearance Certificates.

They were also said to have unlawfully presented the fake certificate to the Minister of Interior for the renewal of expatriate quota positions for 20 pilots and 10 other persons.

According to the FIRS, the accused persons failed to deduct and pay taxes accruing to government from Withholding Tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) from 2007 to 2010, totaling N4.86 billion.

The charge said Air Nigeria and the accused persons failed to deduct at source, N394.16 million being taxes accruing to government from withholding tax between January and December 2006.

Similarly, the company was said to have failed to deduct withholding tax of N775.20 million being 10 per cent of the payments for direct services as prescribed under the Companies Income Tax Act.

The offence, according to the court papers, is punishable under Section 40 of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (Establishment) Act No 13 of 2007.

The accused were also said to have failed to file annual returns of the company for 2011 with the FIRS, as prescribed by Section 55 (1) of the Companies Income Tax Cap C21 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2010.

The charge said the failure to file annual returns ``was with the connivance of Ibrahim and Kahssaye; and you hereby committed an offence punishable under Section 55(4) and (5) of the same Act.''

According to the FIRS, some officials of Air Nigeria, sometime in January ``made counterfeit of tax certificate, purportedly issued by the FIRS in favour of Air Nigeria Development Company Ltd.

The whistleblower petition against Air Nigeria and Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim that triggered the investigations and tax fraud charges:

I USED TO WORK AS A MANAGER IN THE QUALITY CTRL DEPT AND I WANT TO DISPUTE THE CLAIM BY NNOROM THAT AIR NIGERIA SERVES BOTTLED PURE WATER,THATS A VERY CHEAP/CHEEKY LIE.THE CONSUMER PROTECTION COUNCIL IN NIGERIA SEEMS TO BE ASLEEP,BUT IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE THE AIRLINE FLIES TO,THEY COME REGULARLY TO CHECK WATER BEEN SERVED PASSENGERS,BOTH BOTTLED WATER AND THE WATER FILLED INTO THE TANK OF THE AIRCRAFT,IF IT HAD BEEN FOUND WANTING,THEY WOULD HAVE IMPOUNDED THE AIRCRAFT OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY.THE CLAIM THAT AIR NIGERIA OPERATES A FLYING COFFIN IS A CHEAP BLACKMAIL,IT IS ON RECORD THAT VIRGIN NIGERIA WAS THE 1ST AIRLINE TO BE IOSA CERTIFIED IN THE WHOLE OF WEST AFRICA,A FEAT THAT HAS BEEN SUSTAINED BY AIR NIGERIA,IT IS ON RECORD THAT AIR NIGERIA RAISED THE BAR WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY STANDARD IN NIGERIA..THERES EVEN A JOKE THAT OTHER AIRLINES WILL TAKE OFF SO FAR THEY CAN SEE WITH ONE EYE BUT THAT AIR NIGERIA WILL NOT DEPART IF THEY DONT SEE WITH THE TWO EYES. NNOROM IS JUST USING THE DANA CRASH TO RUBBISH THE LEGACY OF THE COMPANY THAT HE KNEW NOTHING OF B4 THE ADVENT OF HIS STUPID THIEVING FRIEND JIMOH. IT IS ON RECORD THAT WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD BTW THESE TWO,NNOROM WIELDED SO MUCH POWER MORE THAN THE CEO,WHICH INFORMED WHY HE(NNOROM)SACKED A LOT OF PPLE LAST DEC WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CEO,COS NNOROM WAS THE DE-FACTO CEO.THE CEO IS A FIGURE HEAD FROM ETHIOPIA WHO DOESNT MIND BEING ON THE SIDELINE JUST TO CONTINUE COLLECTING THE HIGH SALARY ATTACHED TO HIS OFFICE.NNOROM WAS NEVER PRAYED FOR BY THE PEOPLE HE SACKED COS HE THREW A LOT OF FAMILIES IN TURMOIL BY SACKING THEIR BREADWINNERS,THEIR PRAYERS MUST HAVE PAID OFF WHEN THE TWO ROGUES FELL APART,JIMOH IS A THIEF WHO HAS BEEN STEALING FROM THE COMPANY SINCE HE TOOK OVER, AN ADAGE SAYS "A SWORD MAN WILL NOT WANT SWORD TAKEN OVER HIS HEAD" BEST SUMS UP THE FIGHT BTW THE TWO,NNOROM STOLE FROM JIMOH,AND JIMOH BEING A BIGGER THIEF DOESNT LIKE BEEN BEATEN AT HIS OWN GAME,HENCE THE FIGHT AND MUDSLINGING. THE TWO OF THEM CAN KILL EACH OTHER FOR ALL I CARE,BUT MY GROUSE IS NNOROM SHOULD LEAVE AIR NIGERIA OUT OF THEIR FIGHT,HE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT WE FORMER EMPLOYEES BROUGHT THE COMPANY TO AN ENVIABLE HEIGHT FROM THE DAYS OF VIRGIN NIGERIA,EVEN B4 JIMOH EVER DREAMT OF FRONTING TO BUY THE COMPANY,HE SHOULD NOT DESTROY THE COMPANY BY HIS CACOPHONY OF LIES,HE SHOULD ATTACK JIMOH AND HIS OTHER BUSINESSES,AIR NIGERIA IS A LOFTY COMPANY THAT WE WERE ALL PASSIONATE ABOUT,AM SURE THE AIRLINE WILL RISE FROM THIS CRISES TO BECOME A STRONGER BRAND THAT WE HAVE ALL DREAMT OF,THOSE IN HIGH AUTHORITIES SHOULD ENSURE THAT JIMOH DOES NOT RETURN TO THAT COMPANY,HE IS STEALING FROM THE COMPANY TO FUND HIS OTHER BUSINESSES.....HE BROUGHT NNOROM IN TO BE HIS EYE IN THE COMPANY AND LOOT ON HIS BEHALF,IT WAS WHEN THE SLAVE STARTED STEALING FROM THE MASTER THAT WAHALA STARTED.....NNOROM SHOULD ATTACK JIMOH ON ALL FRONTS BUT HE SHOULD LEAVE AIR NIGERIA OUT OF THEIR "ROFOROFO FIGHT".HE SHOULD HAVE IT AT THE BACK OF HIS MIND THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO STILL WORK FOR THIS COMPANY AND THEY FEED THEIR FAMILIES FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE BUSINESS,IF HE SPOILS THEIR MEANS OF INCOME,THEN HE WILL HAVE MORE BLOOD ON HIS CONSCIENCE PLUS THE PEOPLE HE SACKED LAST YEAR WITHOUT BENEFITS.
I STAND BY MY WORD THAT AIR NIGERIA IS THE SAFEST AIRLINE ANYONE CAN THINK OF FLYING IN NIGERIA,ITS COS OF ITS IOSA CERTIFICATION THAT IT HAS CODESHARES WITH TOP AIRLINES IN THE WORLD NAMELY DELTA AIR,LUFTHANSA,EMIRATES AND QATAR AIRWAYS.
JIMOH SHOULD BE SENT TO ROT IN JAIL,HIS ERSTWHILE FRIEND WHO HE WAS FRONTING FOR,IBORI IS COOLING HIS HEELS IN JAIL AND BY GOD'S GRACE JIMOH IBRAHIM WILL SOON GO AND JOIN HIM INSHA ALLAH!!!

@ sesansexy, using caps to type in the digital world is as good as shouting in the physical world. Just an advice.