Ebonyi: Don’t tax vegetable sellers, petty traders – Gov Nwifuru warns revenue collectors

Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru has advised tax collectors not to collect taxes from vegetable and small-scale vendors.

Dr. Monday Uzor, the governor’s chief press secretary, released a statement in Abakaliki on Wednesday that included this warning.

He claimed that the governor made the remark at the Revenue Appeal Commission members’ swearing-in ceremony, which took place at the New Government House in Abakiliki’s Centennial City.

Nwifuru urged vegetable vendors to refrain from such actions, calling the tax-collecting process from them inhumane.

He claimed there was no justification for taxing individuals who sold their farm products in neighborhood marketplaces.

“I want you to go for big, big business owners.

“I have told the Revenue Service, I don’t want you to go to the village markets and be collecting tax from vegetable sellers; I have said it times without number.

“I don’t see reasons we should be taxing people who are selling what they got from their farms,” he advised.

To increase the state’s internally generated revenue and avoid infringing on citizens’ rights, the governor urged Augustine Nwankwegu, Chairman of the Revenue Service and Appeal Commission, and its members to carry out their tasks with a human face.

“I don’t want shouting, I don’t want closing people’s shops, you have to look at the people’s shops and tax them based on what they have. Everything is all about negotiations,” he said.

On behalf of the appointees, Nwankwegu thanked the governor and assured him that the revenue service would exert great effort to raise state revenue and make conducting business in the state more straightforward.

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