LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT GOES TOUGH ON TAX DEFAULTERS

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service said it shut 67 companies which failed to remit workers’ personal income taxes in 2012. Head, Distrain Unit of LIRS, Folasade Coker-Afolayan, said the total amount the companies failed to remit amounted to N450m in the last six years.

GOVERNOR BABTUNDE FASHOLA

She described tax enforcement by the Lagos State Government as very successful; stressing that tax payment was a civic responsibility of all. Mrs Coker-Afolayan urged companies to remit their workers’ personal income taxes promptly in 2013 to avoid being shut