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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by sammyj: 10:27pm On Sep 06, 2021
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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by SecretReporter(f): 10:28pm On Sep 06, 2021
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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by mauchiz: 10:33pm On Sep 06, 2021
All the tax they collected all these years, what did they do with it?
So far as I am concerned, Nysom Wike is working more than Buhari, so they should pay the tax to Rivers state government.

After all, Imo State and Abia state government are not doing anything with the money they give them all these years.

Every state should learn to generate revenue and stop depending on other states.

Period

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by smallsmall: 10:35pm On Sep 06, 2021
Zooposki:
I trust Wike to ignore them. Mumu people.

Wike is not just ignoring them, he is upholding a Law Court Ruling..

There is a subsisting Court Ruling saying that Rivers can collect VAT, so what is the nonsense that the FIRS is saying?
Until there is another Court Ruling which invalidates that Ruling and Supersedes it, everyone in Port Harcourt and other States (by extension) should pay their VAT to their respective State.
The Citizens are not the Judge, their only Duty is to pay Tax to whoever is APPROVED by the LAW Court. smiley

Imagine, VAT on Beer Collected in Rivers will be given to Sokoto State or Zamfara who practice SHARIA and keep destroying the same Beer!
What kind of exploitation of Southern States is that?

These Northerners just wont stop being a Parasite on the South

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Ellasure: 10:41pm On Sep 06, 2021
[quote author=perambulator post=105560999]They cant win. Federal VAT is unconstitutional. In fact many federal Government levies are unconstitutional (Witholding tax, education levy etc etc). This is the problem they created for themselves when they copied the American constitution. There is no VAT in America, only state sales taxes which are determined and collected by states.

If Wike wins this (and he should because the law is clear), this is a game changer bigger than the way Fashola changed the narrative for Gorvernors and performance.[/quote

It is about time to let people of northern Nigeria know that the people in southern Nigeria are well traveled and well educated by now.

They should begin to look for money from other sources open to government taxation. Otherwise, many of those unviable state need to fold up and become appendages to a viable southern states.

Islamic clerics has no place holding government positions.

Thanks to wike, governor of river state.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by smallsmall: 10:41pm On Sep 06, 2021
aguiyi2:
Why put Tax payers in a difficult position?. A case of between the devil and the deep blue sea. Corporate bodies in Rivers State, I pity una.

It is not their problem, l will just refuse to pay anything to anyone, until the Coast is Clear and if Push becomes Shove, l will pay to the Rivers State, that is the subsisting Order, to date.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Nobody: 10:45pm On Sep 06, 2021
[quote author=Ellasure post=105561408][/quote]

Whatever happens, Wike is a F**king Hero, It's amazing how all this time, all the Lawyers never bothered to check if the fed govt even have the legal backing to set the rate and collect VAT and all the other illegal taxes.

I'm telling you with this nobody will bother with Abuja anymore. The money from Oil they are sharing is peanuts in a $500b economy, States will start to make progress!!! Think about all the VAT collected, the illegal witholding taxes, collected on state govt contracts, illegal education taxes etc

Now we are entering true Federalism and competition because each state can set it's own VAT level as incentive to attract business and people.

For instance, States with sea ports can set lower VAT to attract traffic away from lagos to their ports, which is good for lagos because Lagos will be less congested.

Wike is a f**king Hero

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by smallsmall: 10:45pm On Sep 06, 2021
Ellasure:
It is about time to let people of northern Nigeria know that the people in southern Nigeria are well traveled and well educated by now.

They should begin to look for money from other sources open to government taxation. Otherwise, many of those unviable state need to fold up and become appendages to a viable southern states.

Islamic clerics has no place holding government positions.

Thanks to wike, governor of river state.

NO WAY!

They should merge with Niger republic or merge together to form Arewa Republic.
No Southern States wants Sharia or Terrorists Fulani herdsmen/Bandits as members

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by tope777(m): 10:52pm On Sep 06, 2021
It is getting closer.
Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by GEEBITE: 10:54pm On Sep 06, 2021
They always make a southerner the spokesperson of all the organisations or agencies under their firm control. NNPC,CBN,NPA,NIMASA,FIRS,ARMY,POLICE,DSS etc all have a southerner as spokesperson. This is a case of house nigger.
Mickiebrownkie:
https://independent.ng/firs-affirms-position-on-vat-collection-urges-tax-payers-not-to-panic/

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by techWriter1: 11:16pm On Sep 06, 2021
Parasitic North

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by AmazingELixir: 11:25pm On Sep 06, 2021
aguiyi2:
Why put Tax payers in a difficult position?. A case of between the devil and the deep blue sea. Corporate bodies in Rivers State, I pity una.

Before you start pitying corporate bodies in Rivers the Lagos state house of assembly is on the second reading to enact a state VAT law...incase you don't know, Tinubu's rapid health improvement started since the federal high court in Port Harcourt ruled in favour of the states collecting VAT...he is about to become a trillionaire.

I wonder what Ogun state government is waiting for
...they are another state that will benefit massively from the VAT ruling ...the man in Abeokuta seem to be still sleeping.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Nobody: 11:27pm On Sep 06, 2021
Funny talk, why dem go panic grin
Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Evercurious(f): 11:28pm On Sep 06, 2021
Terrence99:
Oponu, you incompetent fools in FIRS wanted to apply for stay of of execution pending appeal, you wrote a letter to the court. Is that procedure gotten by writing letters? Dumb fools. Your entire legal department of FIRS should be sacked. That is what happens when you use tribalism, favouritism and political loyalty to recruit lawyers. Shebi FIRS is fond of underground recruitments, You fools will learn the hard way. You will learn by force that government work is not for blockheads and misfits.

There are 3 things you don't recruit with tribalism: your lawyer, your doctor, your pilot.

As for the North, better start looking for how you wil tax banditry and kidnapping. By the time the South is done with you, you will be begging Nigerian Breweries to establish their factory beside the Sultan's Palace.

I just love this

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Tareq1105: 11:31pm On Sep 06, 2021
Beginninging in beginninging of Restructuring.
Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by DabuIIIT: 11:35pm On Sep 06, 2021
Tiff Tiff firs....the north should be ashamed of itself.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by REALretep(m): 11:38pm On Sep 06, 2021
Terrence99:
Oponu, you incompetent fools in FIRS wanted to apply for stay of of execution pending appeal, you wrote a letter to the court. Is that procedure gotten by writing letters? Dumb fools. Your entire legal department of FIRS should be sacked. That is what happens when you use tribalism, favouritism and political loyalty to recruit lawyers. Shebi FIRS is fond of underground recruitments, You fools will learn the hard way. You will learn by force that government work is not for blockheads and misfits.

There are 3 things you don't recruit with tribalism: your lawyer, your doctor, your pilot.

As for the North, better start looking for how you wil tax banditry and kidnapping. By the time the South is done with you, you will be begging Nigerian Breweries to establish their factory beside the Sultan's Palace.
Word cool
I really pity the north.
Their leaders said they were educationally disadvantaged and introduced the quota system and federal character.
They didn't know they were busy discouraging hardwork, industriousness and entrepreneurship from among their populace while the south was doing the complete reverse. They thought it was a show of power and lordship over the south.
The smelly food they were busy cooking is almost done...they must eat it

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Magnumproperty: 11:54pm On Sep 06, 2021
Terrence99:
Oponu, you incompetent fools in FIRS wanted to apply for stay of of execution pending appeal, you wrote a letter to the court. Is that procedure gotten by writing letters? Dumb fools. Your entire legal department of FIRS should be sacked. That is what happens when you use tribalism, favouritism and political loyalty to recruit lawyers. Shebi FIRS is fond of underground recruitments, You fools will learn the hard way. You will learn by force that government work is not for blockheads and misfits.

There are 3 things you don't recruit with tribalism: your lawyer, your doctor, your pilot.

As for the North, better start looking for how you wil tax banditry and kidnapping. By the time the South is done with you, you will be begging Nigerian Breweries to establish their factory beside the Sultan's Palace.
How can I like this one million times?

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by SKYHIGHfx: 11:59pm On Sep 06, 2021
In this kind of reasoning u won't find that nama @mannabbqrills

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by SweetiliciousD: 12:30am On Sep 07, 2021
Terrence99:
Oponu, you incompetent fools in FIRS wanted to apply for stay of of execution pending appeal, you wrote a letter to the court. Is that procedure gotten by writing letters? Dumb fools. Your entire legal department of FIRS should be sacked. That is what happens when you use tribalism, favouritism and political loyalty to recruit lawyers. Shebi FIRS is fond of underground recruitments, You fools will learn the hard way. You will learn by force that government work is not for blockheads and misfits.

There are 3 things you don't recruit with tribalism: your lawyer, your doctor, your pilot.

As for the North, better start looking for how you wil tax banditry and kidnapping. By the time the South is done with you, you will be begging Nigerian Breweries to establish their factory beside the Sultan's Palace.

Hey bro,

Have you forgotten who leads the judiciary at supreme court?

Hmmmmm

All what you lamented on rests on the supreme court.

Imo state can expound better!

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by ThierryJay: 12:30am On Sep 07, 2021
perambulator:


Whatever happens, Wike is a F**king Hero, It's amazing how all this time, all the Lawyers never bothered to check if the fed govt even have the legal backing to set the rate and collect VAT and all the other illegal taxes.

I'm telling you with this nobody will bother with Abuja anymore. The money from Oil they are sharing is peanuts in a $500b economy, States will start to make progress!!! Think about all the VAT collected, the illegal witholding taxes, collected on state govt contracts, illegal education taxes etc

Now we are entering true Federalism and competition because each state can set it's own VAT level as incentive to attract business and people.

For instance, States with sea ports can set lower VAT to attract traffic away from lagos to their ports, which is good for lagos because Lagos will be less congested.

Wike is a f**king Hero

Actually, it was a relatively unknown private law firm in Port Harcourt, Ukala & Co. that first took FIRS to court over the VAT issue when FIRS slammed huge VAT liabilities on them. When they won the case sometimes around June this year, that was when Wike saw that he could ride on the Ukala judgement to challenge FIRS statewide. So while Wike can still be considered a hero, he had some precedence to help him out here. The private firm is the bigger hero for starting the chain of events!

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Evercurious(f): 12:46am On Sep 07, 2021
ThierryJay:


Actually, it was a relatively unknown private law firm in Port Harcourt, Ukala & Co. that first took FIRS to court over the VAT issue when FIRS slammed huge VAT liabilities on them. When they won the case sometimes around June this year, that was when Wike saw that he could ride on the Ukala judgement to challenge FIRS statewide. So while Wike can still be considered a hero, he had some precedence to help him out here. The private firm is the bigger hero for starting the chain of events!

Then all these lawyers should start checking out the constitution to take advantage of some hidden facts... Enough of all these Northern nonsense

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Validated: 1:00am On Sep 07, 2021
GEEBITE:
They always make a southerner the spokesperson of all the organisations or agencies under their firm control. NNPC,CBN,NPA,NIMASA,FIRS,ARMY,POLICE,DSS etc all have a southerner as spokesperson. This is a case of house nigger.
Shey you too notice that. All spokespersons are Southerners while the leaders and actots are usually Northerners.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by calcal: 1:38am On Sep 07, 2021
The north should be happy that they are 70% and all VAT collected in the north will remain in the north.

Let them enjoy themselves alone!

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Terrence99: 1:50am On Sep 07, 2021
SweetiliciousD:

Hey bro,

Have you forgotten who leads the judiciary at supreme court?

Hmmmmm

All what you lamented on rests on the supreme court.

Imo state can expound better!

But the same Supreme Court gave Bayelsa to PDP. You didn't mention that.

Lagos has previously taken this matter to the State High Court and Court of Appeal, only for the SC to upturn it because it wasn't decided at the Federal High Court. Now, Rivers has taken it to the Federal High Court and the entire North is in disarray.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Terrence99: 1:52am On Sep 07, 2021
SKYHIGHfx:
In this kind of reasoning u won't find that nama @mannabbqrills

His other moniker is NLPoliceWoman. He's peeping from outside, he can't talk due to shame.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Chukwuka16: 2:06am On Sep 07, 2021
Terrence99:
Oponu, you incompetent fools in FIRS wanted to apply for stay of of execution pending appeal, you wrote a letter to the court. Is that procedure gotten by writing letters? Dumb fools. Your entire legal department of FIRS should be sacked. That is what happens when you use tribalism, favouritism and political loyalty to recruit lawyers. Shebi FIRS is fond of underground recruitments, You fools will learn the hard way. You will learn by force that government work is not for blockheads and misfits.

There are 4 things you don't recruit with tribalism: your lawyer, your doctor, your accountant and your pilot.

As for the North, better start looking for how you wil tax banditry and kidnapping. By the time the South is done with you, you will be begging Nigerian Breweries to establish their factory beside the Sultan's Palace.

Fixed that for you.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by SweetiliciousD: 2:09am On Sep 07, 2021
Terrence99:


But the same Supreme Court gave Bayelsa to PDP. You didn't mention that.

Lagos has previously taken this matter to the State High Court and Court of Appeal, only for the SC to upturn it because it wasn't decided at the Federal High Court. Now, Rivers has taken it to the Federal High Court and the entire North is in disarray.

Bros, this is Nija ooo

Bubu is still the emperor in saddle

That is all I know
Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Terrence99: 2:18am On Sep 07, 2021
SweetiliciousD:
Bros, this is Nija ooo

Bubu is still the emperor in saddle

That is all I know

There is absolutely NOTHING Buhari can do about this. I just checked the Exclusive and Concurrent lists in the Constitution and there's no way the FIRS can escape this. VAT was introduced in 1993, it wasn't always with us.

Once it concerns legal matters, the North always loses out. That is why you see Buhari running to the South to pick lawyers for his election petition.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Terrence99: 2:19am On Sep 07, 2021
Chukwuka16:

Fixed that for you.

Thanks.
That reminds me, the current FIRS Chairman doesn't have ICAN. He's using ANAN which is basically diluted ICAN for dummies.

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Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by rave409: 2:37am On Sep 07, 2021
We might end up paying double tax.
Re: FIRS Affirms Position On VAT Collection, Urges Tax Payers Not To Panic by Chukwuka16: 4:21am On Sep 07, 2021
Terrence99:


Thanks.
That reminds me, the current FIRS Chairman doesn't have ICAN. He's using ANAN which is basically diluted ICAN for dummies.

No, you are kidding?

I assumed and never did check or seek to know. Yeah, we do have a lot of dumbed-down heads of parastatals across Nigeria. What's unfortunate is seeing brilliant young minds (the very few of them though) answerable to very mediocre bosses. Nothing kills motivation/drive like that.

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