Niger State Board of Internal Revenue (BIR),Monday shuts the business premises of of eight banks in the state over alleged N456million tax infraction
Executive Chairman of the Board, Alhaji Mohammed Madami Etsu, revealed this in a statement.
He explained that the action carried out in line with the provisions of the relevant Nigerian Tax laws.
The names of the tax defaulters i include; Stanbic IBTC (N113.2 million) Polaris Bank (N74.8 million), UBA (N68.9 million), Union Bank (N47.1m illion), First Bank (N45.7 million), Heritage Bank (N31.5 million) Unity Bank (N14 million) and GTB (N8.2 million).
Others are ; the AEDC Plc having the debt standing as N45.8 million, AloeVera International Hotel (N3.9 million) and Rashida Restaurant along Shiroro road (N3.2 million).
Etsu lamented,who lamented the failure of private and corporate organisations defaulting in statutory responsibilities, said all efforts by his agency to enable the defaulting organisaations pay their respective tax liabilities have been met with brick wall.
He implored all debtors to pay their outstanding tax liabilities to avoid embarrassments which may not be restricted to closure of their offices by the enabling BIR tax laws,but use of other means to recover such debts.
