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Lagos joins Rivers as co-defendant in FIRS appeal against VAT judgement

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THE Lagos State Government has joined Rivers State as a co-defendant in an appeal by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) against the power of states to administer and collect value added tax (VAT) in the country.

According to the Punch, the Attorney General of Lagos State Moyosore Onigbanjo notified the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja on Friday the willingness of his state to join the suit.

However, FIRS Counsel Mahmoud Magaji told the court that the matter hearing was another application filed by the FIRS seeking for the stay of execution of the trial court’s judgment.

Responding to the Lagos State’s request, Majagi argued FIRS’s application for stay of execution should take precedence over the application for joinder.

After listening to the submissions from all the parties, the court stood down the matter for the ruling.

    The FIRS is challenging a Port Harcourt Federal High Court judgement which held last month that the Rivers State government had the powers to collect VAT within its territory.

    The judgement has since pitched the FIRS against Rivers State Government, which vowed on Wednesday to enforce the judgement by beginning VAT collection this month.

    On Thursday, the Lagos State House of Assembly empowered the state government to start collecting VAT.

    Although there are concerns that the furore the judgement has created might be sending the wrong signals to investors, some Nigerians believe that it is laying the foundation for fiscal federalism.

     

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