The Edo State Internal Revenue Service (EIRS) has unveiled a harmonised tax collection framework aimed at eliminating multiple taxation, curbing illegal revenue collection and improving the ease of doing business for traders and market operators across the state.
The initiative was presented during a stakeholders’ engagement held at the EIRS headquarters in Benin City, where leaders of market associations, traders’ unions, shop owners and senior officials of the revenue agency discussed plans for a unified revenue collection system.
Speaking at the meeting, John Odior, Executive Chairman of the EIRS, said the new framework, developed in collaboration with the state’s local government councils and relevant ministries, departments and agencies, would replace the current system of multiple collections with a single, consolidated annual demand notice covering all approved state and local government levies.
According to him, designated collection teams operating through authorised and transparent payment channels will be responsible for all revenue collections, ending the practice of separate teams from different government agencies approaching traders for payments.
“The state and local government will work together as one body. Traders should no longer pay money to unauthorised collectors, as many of them operate illegally. Anyone not recognised under the new arrangement should not receive any payment,” Odior said. Related News Some Nigerian entrepreneurs are already building businesses in the UK legitimately. Here is how Oyo, CTH Trading Stores partner to develop 481-hectare smart agro-city in Saki 'Universities should produce innovators, not imitators, creators not consumers of knowledge'
