The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, on Monday, sealed four companies in Lagos and Port Harcourt over their failure to meet their tax obligations totalling N630 million.
The affected firms include Charcoal and Spices Restaurant Limited, GRA, Port Harcourt, and Cioscon Nigerian Limited at 14 Aba Road, Port Harcourt.
The leader of the FIRS enforcement team, Mrs. Anita Erinne, sealed both companies after showing a warrant of distraint to officials of the company.
Charcoal and Spices Restaurant Limited owes N12,388,979.50 tax debt while Cioscon Nigerian Ltd has a tax liability amounting to N479,203,464.43 from 2014 to 2016 which the firm has failed to remit.
Erinne told the defaulting firms that the companies’ premises will be unsealed when they clear their outstanding tax bills.
She warned the workers not to unseal or tamper with the FIRS seal until the debts are cleared, stating that any attempt to remove the seals will be a contravention of the law.
Erinne, however, noted that the firms have been officially notified of their indebtedness to FIRS, stating that all the companies’ taxes should be paid before their premises could be unsealed.
In Lagos, the enforcement team of the FIRS sealed Joza Global Service situated at 18, Ribadu Road, Ikoyi, Lagos over a tax debt of over N30.6 million. The FIRS team also sealed-off Spog Petrochemicals Limited situated at 50d, Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos over a tax debt of N105.5 million.
Last week, the FIRS sealed off the premises of tax-owing companies in Abuja. Among these was an educational facility, Fanaks International Schools in the Asokoro area of the federal capital. The school was owing a total of N976,133.57 in Company Income Tax (CIT), Education Tax (EDT) and Withholding Tax (WHT).
Also sealed was Hotel Bahamas International, which was owing N694,045.29 in CIT, EDT, WHT for the 2015 assessment year. Another hospitality facility, Dabiyi Hotels and Suites in Kurudu was sealed over tax liabilities totaling N4,191,996.26 carried over from the 2014 assessment year.

http://leadership.ng/2017/07/18/firs-seals-4-firms-n630m-tax/

465m.... Where the hell will they get that from? Anyways, d Indians in Lagos knows better.... Change of name simple



Am i Di FTC.... Holala.
Dedicate this to all the beautiful ladies out there struggling hard to support their man. Your struggles shall never be in vain and no woman will reap what you have sowed.

op dis ur FIR logo sef

Good one. No society runs without citizens, companies and industries paying their taxes.

Chai! The firms should be prosecuted. Robbing us of our tax earnings.


Genius J

how can I call on them to come and seal the brothel at the back of my house, am sure dey don pay tax and yet they disturb us with loud banging music every night till 4am next morning.

...and they'll be begging like...

Things are so hard for this Buhari regime o. Everything is just upside down. Nothing to eat, nothing to fall back to. No improvements, no jobs. This man is just synonymous to serious hardship. what's way forward Nigerians.

Pay Your Tax!!

As if na everything them go pay before them open there shops/companies for them back.

The person above me is advertising, I don't have anything to say, may be the person below me will say some thing meanifull

FIRS this FIRS that. Is FIRS mad?

how citizens don benefit from the tax?

Where the cash dey go sef?

Mtcheeeew. Useless country.

How much is Charcoal and spices making to pay such an amount as tax?

They have finished sharing oil money and now they want to share tax money.

Government that can not provide any social amenities is that one government.

Jerryojozy:
Chai! The firms should be prosecuted. Robbing us of our tax earnings.


Genius J

What about other companies that dont pay tax becos they re owned by politicians?

I've never heard them seal any operational company in the north.

Go to their office in sani abacha Road office in Port Harcourt, the mallam heading the tax agency has virtually turn the upper floor of the office building to a mini mosque. As soon as it's praying time, businesses are paralysed

yeye. na mumu nawa

DieBuhari:
How much is Charcoal and spices making to pay such an amount as tax?

It has piled up over time. If they paid when due it would not amount to that much. That's how it works.

quentin06:


What about other companies that dont pay tax becos they re owned by politicians?

How do u know they don't pay tax. Every company in Nigeria is mandated to pay tax.


Genius J

Only God knows how much these firms make as profit per annum to owe tax of 465 million in just 2 years.

freshvine:
I've never heard them seal any operational company in the north.

Go to their office in sani abacha Road office in Port Harcourt, the mallam heading the tax agency has virtually turn the upper floor of the office building to a mini mosque. As soon as it's praying time, businesses are paralysed

North people need to get sense

Our thumb doing press up till 2019

The level of corruption in FIRS is to the highest order. When you refuse to negotiate with them according to their fraudulent terms, they come up with unrealistic assessment reports and punish you by sealing off your business premises. Visit any of their offices and see their rubbish attitudes. One needs not mention that the Government does absolutely nothing to create a proper environment for business owners with all the tax remitted to them. This country sef.

They shud pay na

themomentng:
The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, on Monday, sealed four companies in Lagos and Port Harcourt over their failure to meet their tax obligations totalling N630 million.
The affected firms include Charcoal and Spices Restaurant Limited, GRA, Port Harcourt, and Cioscon Nigerian Limited at 14 Aba Road, Port Harcourt.
The leader of the FIRS enforcement team, Mrs. Anita Erinne, sealed both companies after showing a warrant of distraint to officials of the company.
Charcoal and Spices Restaurant Limited owes N12,388,979.50 tax debt while Cioscon Nigerian Ltd has a tax liability amounting to N479,203,464.43 from 2014 to 2016 which the firm has failed to remit.
Erinne told the defaulting firms that the companies’ premises will be unsealed when they clear their outstanding tax bills.
She warned the workers not to unseal or tamper with the FIRS seal until the debts are cleared, stating that any attempt to remove the seals will be a contravention of the law.
Erinne, however, noted that the firms have been officially notified of their indebtedness to FIRS, stating that all the companies’ taxes should be paid before their premises could be unsealed.
In Lagos, the enforcement team of the FIRS sealed Joza Global Service situated at 18, Ribadu Road, Ikoyi, Lagos over a tax debt of over N30.6 million. The FIRS team also sealed-off Spog Petrochemicals Limited situated at 50d, Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos over a tax debt of N105.5 million.
Last week, the FIRS sealed off the premises of tax-owing companies in Abuja. Among these was an educational facility, Fanaks International Schools in the Asokoro area of the federal capital. The school was owing a total of N976,133.57 in Company Income Tax (CIT), Education Tax (EDT) and Withholding Tax (WHT).
Also sealed was Hotel Bahamas International, which was owing N694,045.29 in CIT, EDT, WHT for the 2015 assessment year. Another hospitality facility, Dabiyi Hotels and Suites in Kurudu was sealed over tax liabilities totaling N4,191,996.26 carried over from the 2014 assessment year.

http://leadership.ng/2017/07/18/firs-seals-4-firms-n630m-tax/

This is why we live i n a ZOO, why would FIRS official be on ground to seal a Biz premises? well answer to receive bribe
IS it not the job of the court to issue a warrant and sending beliefs down there to retrieve the debts?
Nigerians always doing things backward.
A wise Biz man will simply go to court and get an injunction and re open his/her Biz.

londoner:


It has piled up over time. If they paid when due it would not amount to that much. That's how it works.

Over time? how long 50 years??

DieBuhari:
How much is Charcoal and spices making to pay such an amount as tax?

Help me ask them

freshvine:
I've never heard them seal any operational company in the north.

Go to their office in sani abacha Road office in Port Harcourt, the mallam heading the tax agency has virtually turn the upper floor of the office building to a mini mosque. As soon as it's praying time, businesses are paralysed

Why do you guys hate law enforcement and a functioning agency with passion ?
The companies were owing tax and they were shut down
but you had to bring north into it.

brainpulse:
Good one. No society runs without citizens, companies and industries paying their taxes.

Another poorly thought out comment .

chigoizie7:
Only God knows how much these firms make as profit per annum to owe tax of 465 million in just 2 years.

They don't make much the FIRS is just being dubious and opportunist, those companies must have filed in tax returns and the FIRS instead of seeing the reality will reject the filed tax returns and give them any arbitrary figure based on best on Judgement..That how they charged my Seniors sister small firm a tax of 270 million naira despite the fact that her firm hardly makes 1w million naira a year in their small rented office just because they heard it Internet data reseller for main one ... Only those e who are not into business will come here and applaud the FIRS