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Bill To Enable States Collect VAT ‘Scales Through’ In House Of Reps
A bill enabling states to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) in Nigeria, is currently at the verge of becoming a law at the House of representatives, reports say.
According to report, the law is to enable states’ to collect Value Added Taxes, VAT and their right to mine and control their resources.
BIGPENNGR reports that some states across the federation, are currently in a legal tussle with the Federal Government on who collects VAT on goods and services.
A bill to that effect, entitled “An Act to Alter 39, Part 1 of the Second Schedule of the 1999 Constitution as Amended to Substitute and Move the Item from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List”, sponsored by Reps Hassan Usman Sokodabo and John Dyegh.
“The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, is hereby altered as set out. Item 39, part 1 of the Second Schedule of the Principal Act, Altered by substituting the item and moving it from the Exclusive Legislative List, to the Concurrent List.
“Thus, item 39, Part 1 of the Second Schedule of the Constitution to be moved to the Concurrent Legislative List now read: States Government shall manage their resources, mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, Values Added Tax(VAT), geological surveys as well as natural gas. 50% of the total revenue accruable from the minerals shall be retained by the state where the minerals are derived.
“30% shall be credited to the Distributable Pool Account, while the remaining 20%, shall be credited to the Federation Account”.
This development comes amidst the legal tussle between the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the governments of Rivers and Lagos states over the collection of Value-Added Tax, according to report in SaharaReporters.
Rivers State government has been involved in the legal tussle with the FIRS over collection of VAT, since a High Court in Port Harcourt ruled in favour of the state government.
Lagos State has since joined Rivers State while a number of southern states are now queuing behind them.
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