Edo knocks Oil firms over 221m unpaid taxes
Two oil companies operating in Edo State have been slammed with notices of non-compliance by the state government, following their failure to remit taxes worth over N221m. According to a statement by the Edo State Internal Revenue Service on Friday, the taxes were...
Police nab 11 revenue agents in Edo
Operatives of Edo police command have apprehended 11 revenue collectors alleged to have been blocking the Auchi/Okpella-Okene federal highway in order to forcefully collect illegal revenue from lorry drivers plying the road. The suspects were caught in the act about...
Why Edo Can Survive Without Oil
It was a roundtable discussion and the second in the series as we count down to November 12, the terminal date of the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s eight year tenure in Edo State. The brain behind the intellectually stimulating series is no less a person than John...
Traffic Violation: Courts convict over 500 people in Edo
Over 500 persons were arraigned and convicted for various traffic offences during the joint road check exercise also known as Operation Velvet carried out by the Edo State Internal Revenue Service (EIRS) in conjunction with other security agencies such as the Nigeria...
IGR: Edo revenue service organizes sensitization workshop for tax payers
As part of efforts to capture more taxpayers into the state tax database, the Edo Styate Internal Revenue Service (EIRS) has organized a sensitization workshop for business men, women, artisans, trades and craft men in the state. Addressing participants at the...
Edo among few states not bankrupt- Comrade Joe Aligbe
It has been asserted that among the 36 states in Nigeria, Edo State is among the few that are not bankrupt. National Vice President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Comrade Joe Aligbe made the assertion during the state branch of the...
Odubu charges FRSC on issuance of Drivers’ Licence
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has been charged to always subject prospective motorists to proper testing before issuing drivers’ licences to them. Edo State Deputy Governor Dr. Pius Egberanmwen Odubu gave the charge on behalf of Governor Adams Oshiomhole when...
Nigerians must embrace tax policies for states to survive —Oshiomhole
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has said that Nigerians must form the habit of paying taxes in order to interrogate government at all levels. He also said that the state government will broaden its tax net to capture the over one million taxable adults in the...
Dwindling Oil Revenue: Oshiomhole wants successor to deepen tax regime
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has declared that his successor must be able to sustain and deepen the tax collection and administration regime if he must deliver on people oriented programmes and policies. The governor made the remark while delivering lecture...
Tax evasion: ICPC clamps down on foreign, local firms, ports, airports.
Efforts are ongoing by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to track local and foreign companies involved in tax evasion and false documentation. Others include consortium of companies that “submitted doctored audited reports”...
