₦airaland Forum

The Enugu State Government says the tax it imposed on corpses in mortuaries across the state was not spurred by a revenue generation drive.


[i]The Executive Chairman of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, said this while reacting to the Mortuary Tax circular addressed to all the Mortuary Attendants.[/i]

According to the circular, ESIRS in line with the provisions of section 34 of the Birth, Deaths and Burials Law Cap 15 Revised Laws of Enugu State 2004, approved the implementation of the Mortuary tax.

“The sum of N40.00 only is to be paid by owners of a corpse once it was not buried within twenty-four hours. The amount continues to count daily.

“Kindly ensure that owners of corpses make the payments before collection of the corpses for burial and then remit same to the ESIRS in any commercial bank under the mortuary tax in Enugu State IGR Account,” the circular said.

Reacting, Nnamani said that the tax was not new to the state, adding that it was within the Enugu State Mortuary Tax Law which had been in existence for years.

According to him, the amount to pay as the mortuary tax was N40 daily, not N40,000.

“It is an indirect tax paid by mortuary owners, not deceased family and it is just N40, not N40,000. Since its introduction, nobody has been denied burying their dead ones.

“It means that if the corpse stays in the mortuary for 100 days, the mortuary is expected to pay to the state a sum of N4,000.


“The tax is not meant to generate revenue but to discourage people from taking their dead ones to the mortuary all the time,” Nnamani stressed.

helinues:
Oya, let's wait for the defenders from hell to come and defend this as it's not happening outside their shores

Usmanovic95:
How is it their business where people choose to keep their deceased? Are the private morgue complaining of inadequate space or anything whatsoever. It would have made more sense if it's a government owned morgue that is imposing this tax .

RevDesm0ndJuju:
But some of your elderly people are blaming the surge in criminality and other depraved acts as a result of the dead not being buried.

I read somewhere were an old woman blamed the spike in raped from the spirits of dead biafran soldiers whose bodies were never reclaimed and given a proper burial.

Go and discuss with your fellow kindergartners. I have no time for illogical back and forth discussion.

RevDesm0ndJuju:
But some of your elderly people are blaming the surge in criminality and other depraved acts as a result of the dead not being buried.

I read somewhere were an old woman blamed the spike in raped from the spirits of dead biafran soldiers whose bodies were never reclaimed and given a proper burial.

Lanretoye:
Make e Dey there one year,if money for cow never ready we no Dey bury.1year na 48k,e never reach money for basket of tomatoes.

helinues:
Oya, let's wait for the defenders from hell to come and defend this as it's not happening outside their shores

is OWNER of Corpse not the dead Body ?

Mindlog:
Who among the staff of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service would gather liver to go audit corpses in different mortuaties in the state, to make sure of accurate remittance?

This is the handiwork of greedy politicians, their house of assembly should repeal that useless law.

RevDesm0ndJuju:
But some of your elderly people are blaming the surge in criminality and other depraved acts as a result of the dead not being buried.

I read somewhere were an old woman blamed the spike in raped from the spirits of dead biafran soldiers whose bodies were never reclaimed and given a proper burial.

Kingpele:
God punish whoever suggested this madness

nairalanda1:
Helinues, not everything is a matter for mockery.