The Niger State Internal Revenue Service (NIRS), has dragged the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, to Court demanding N468,212 989.90 million.
The money being tax liability due and outstanding in respect of the statutory tax audit, payee, without tax business premises registration and renewal fee, environment fee, development levy and ground rents due for the defendant from the period of 2019-2022, 2017-2023 respectively.
According to the originating process filled in the court the plaintiff’s claim against the defendant is for a declaration that the plaintiff, being an agency of the Niger State government saddled with the statutory objective of administering, control and consolidate the various taxes, non- tax revenues and to account for all such taxes and non- tax revenues and to account for all such revenue collected.
Equally, the plaintiff demanded the court to order the defendant to account for all such taxes and non- tax revenues collected in Niger State, is responsible to demand from the defendants all the statutory tax, audit, on payee, withholding tax, business premises, registration and renewal fee, environment fee, development levy and ground rents due and outstanding with respect to all lands, buildings and structures in Niger State now held, being used and operated by the defendants in Niger State for the period 2017-2022.
In a suit number, NSHC/ MN/ 58/2024 filed at the Minna High court number three by a Minna based legal practitioner Mohammed Ndayako SAN sought for the court an order directing the defendant to pay to the plaintiff interest on the Judgement sum at the rate of ten percent per annum till the same is fully liquidated.
Mohammed Ndayako SAN also demanded for the defendant to pay the plaintiff the cost of ” this litigation as may be assessed by this honourable court”.
When the case came up for mention Tuesday, the counsel to the defendant was not in court, just as the court was told that they were not served with hearing notice that the case was slated for mention Tuesday.
The originating process was however served on them informing the counsel to the defendant that the case has been adjourned to 27 May 2024, for further mention.
At this point, Justice Marya Ismail then adjourned the case to 27 May 2024 for further mention with an order for the service of originating process on the defendant.
