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The Chairman, Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS), Mr. Ekene Emmanuel Nnamani, has said that the Service would in 2024 enforce all tax laws in the state.
He argued that enforcing the laws would ensure that residents of the state pay appropriate tax due to them.
Nnamani stated this on Friday during the flag-off of the street/market storm in Enugu.
The ESIRS chairman regretted that many persons in the state are in the habit of evading tax but added that the ESIRS would end the illegal in 2024.
According to him, the street/market storm is to sensitise the people on its plan to drive the purchase tax and the Land use tax, which he noted that has not be taken serious before now.
“We are navigating our tax from traditional tax to a new tax regime because are areas of tax we are giving priority and this priority we must ensure that citizens understand what we are doing.
“By next year, we will taking to another level our purchase tax which is in our laws, we are going to enforce it to the last level of person that will pay purchase tax will pay by first week of January 2024.
“Then we will start enforcing withholding tax on rent. Our people are not conversant with the tax law that every landlord that receives rent should pay 10 per cent of it to the government as rent”, Nnamani noted.
He disclosed that the state government does not have any plan to increase the tax collected by the ESIRS, adding however that they would ensure that all tax accruable to the government are collected.