By Sylvia Akpan Listen To the Report The Cross River State Internal Revenue Service (CRIRS) has ended a one-day sensitization exercise on ease of tax payment in the State. Speaking at the stakeholders meeting held in Calabar, the State Internal Revenue Service Chairman, Mr. Akpanke Ogar said the sensitization is geared towards the new electronic
By Harrison Edeh, The ICIR Listen To The Report The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said it would commence the process of enforcement and recovery of unremitted tax deductions owed by some States and Local Governments in Nigeria through their respective federation accounts. In a public notice the service issued today, its Executive Chairman, Muhammad
By Esther Okoi For efficiency, accountability, and proper representation of the Cross River Internal Revenue Service (CRIRS), the State Chairman, Nigeria Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, Cross River State Chapter, Mr. Benedict Okache has called for more sensitization of taxpayers and the harmonization of tax collection across the 18 Local Government Areas of the State,
By Godwin Otang Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center, CISLAC, through her Tax Justice Network Platform, TJNP, in collaboration with other CSOs has converged in Calabar, the Cross River State capital to strengthen the anti-tobacco advocacy and Tobacco Tax Control Law in the State. In an address, the Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa said
By Sahara Reporters The attorneys general in Nigeria’s 36 States have sued the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for non-remittance of stamp duties fund generated from the States. According to a court document, the attorneys sued Malami because funds generated from stamp duties are not remitted into States’ coffers,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A Tax Appeal Tribunal sitting in Benin, the Edo State capital, has ordered Union Bank Plc to pay the Cross River Internal Revenue Service (CRIRS) the total sum of NGN56.672,908.72 as outstanding withholding tax on interest expenses, penalty and interest thereon. The bank had on November 4th 2019, filed an appeal before
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Government has announced a package of relief and incentives for individual taxpayers and businesses in the State, following an approval by the Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade. The Commissioner for Finance, Asuquo Ekpenyong, in a statement explained that the relief package in the form of exemptions would cover the
By Eyo Charles, Daily Trust Men, who claimed to be officials of Local Councils in Cross River State, have manhandled shop owners, traders, hawkers and market women for daring to resist payments of rates and levies in the Mbukpa markets and Ambo axis of Calabar South Local Government Area of the State. Two weeks ago,