Unremitted taxes: Kaduna, Kano drag FG agencies to Tax tribunal

Kaduna and Kano State governments through their Boards of
Internal Revenue have taken some federal government agencies to the
North West Zone of the Tax Appeal Tribunal.

They are dragging the agencies to the tribunal sitting in Kaduna
for failure to remit taxes to them.

The Kaduna State board of internal revenue, dragged the Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, before the Tribunal on Wednesday, with
respect to unremitted Pay-As-You-Earn and withholding taxes,
totaling N6.16bn.

The amount was for all taxes due, to the Kaduna State
government, but were unremitted, between 2007 and 2012.

The tribunal, which has just been newly reconstituted, with
Umaru M. Adamu as Chairman, also attended to tax issues against
Kaduna Polytechnic, brought before it for unremitted personal
income taxes and withholding taxes, for the period, 2007 and 2012,
totaling, N3.34bn.

On the other hand, the Kano state Board of Inland Revenue will
on Thursday, take before the tribunal, appeals to determine whether
they were entitled to recover from the National Orthopedic and
another, the sum of N18.6m.

The amount is also for withholding and PAYE taxes, due for the
2011 and 2012 year of assessment.

Bayero University Kano, alongside the Hon Minister of Education
and the Hon Minister of Finance, were also brought before the
tribunal with respect to withholding taxes and PAYE taxes, for
2004, to 2009 year of assessment, in the sum of N1.82bn.

The Tax Appeal Tribunal was established pursuant to Section 59
(I) and the Fifth Schedule of the Federal Inland Revenue Service
(Establishment) Act, 2007.

It was specifically set up to adjudicate on all disputes arising
from operations of the Companies Income Tax Act, Petroleum Profit
Tax Act, Capital Gains Tax Act, Stamp Duties Act, Value Added Tax,
Taxes and Levies among others.

The tribunal, which was inaugurated by the Minister of Finance,
Mrs Zainab Ahmed on November 5 had about 209 cases that are pending
at the various Tax Appeal Tribunals across the country.

The monetary value of 209 pending cases across the six
geo-political zones of the Tax Appeal Tribunal is $18.80bn,
N205.65bn and €0.821m based on figures provide by the ministry of
finance.

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