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Land Use charge: four banks, six hotels, companies sealed by Oyo govt

Published by The Nation on Fri, 20 Nov 2020


By Yinka Adeniran, IbadanOyo state government on Thursday sealed off six hotels, four commercial banks, three filling stations and seven companies for defaulting from paying the states land use charges.In line with governments Land Use Charge revenue demand bill, the State enforcement team sealed off the affected business facilities for failing to pay the required tax.The government said it took the decision to seal off the facilities after several reminder and discount offered were not taken advantage off.The properties which fall under the premises that have been captured by the Oyo State government property enumeration exercises were served bill for over 90 days and were expected to comply with the Land Use Charge obligation.According to the government, most of the businesses owed millions, and the first phase of the exercise to seal was carried out across all local governments within the Ibadan metropolis.Speaking after the exercise, Chairman of the state Board of Internal Revenue, Aremo John Adeleke said the exercise was targeted at urging the state businesses to be alive to their responsibilities to enable government provide security, infrastructure and other essentials necessary to make businesses thrive.The chairman said the State government has given, as palliative, an additional ten percentage discount to complement the initial 25 percent discount on all taxes to ensure that the businesses stay afloat in the face of economic realities posed by the COVID-19 scourge.Aremo Adeleke added that the Government was poised to generate all taxes from business owners without any inimical effect on their ventures to sustain economic growth in the state, adding that the enforcement would continue till the end of the year.He said, The focus of the drive is not to close down or ground any business but to give a push to businesses to assist government in creating a better business premise for them to thrive.He therefore appealed to them to pay all taxes, levies and bills to government because there would not be economic growth when all tax payers are not thriving in their businesses.He said that the State government has increased its internal revenue by over 26 percent and that the State was on a growth trajectory, which makes it easy for the government to give business palliative of 35 percent discount on taxes to increase the capacity of businesses to pay.
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