The Imo State Government says it has sealed 13 hotels in the state for failure to settle their tax liabilities.
The Chairman of Imo State Internal Revenue Service, Emma Ononaku, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri on Thursday.
Onanaku said the IRS had earlier obtained a court order which empowered the outfit to seal the affected hotels.
He explained that the affected hotels defaulted in the payment of Withholding tax, Pay As You Earn tax as well as the statutory five per cent Consumption Tax.
Onanaku said the action was sequel to government’s efforts to generate revenue to carry out its enormous obligations to people of the state.
He frowned at the persistent habit of some hoteliers and other business owners whom he said had continued to default in payment of taxes.
While acknowledging that the action would serve as deterrence to others, Ononaku said the affected hotels would remain sealed until the owners fulfilled their financial obligations to government.
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Staff and guests at Fancy hotel in Umuguma in owerri who have been quarantined by Imo state government for two weeks now over concerns that they may have been exposed to possible Coronavirus infection were released yesterday after being confirmed of being free of the virus
Imo state government sealed the hotel two weeks ago and barred staff and guests from going out of the hotel.
But the commissioner for information and strategy, Declan Emelumba, said the government effected the release of the affected persons after 14 days of isolation because none of them manifested signs or symptoms of the virus
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