{"id":55918,"date":"2021-07-08T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=55918"},"modified":"2021-07-08T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:03:45","slug":"firs-accuses-multichoice-of-n1-8trn-tax-fraud-moves-to-freeze-bank-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/08\/firs-accuses-multichoice-of-n1-8trn-tax-fraud-moves-to-freeze-bank-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt move to freeze bank account of DsTV and GoTV mother company, Multichoice, over alleged N1.8trn tax fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on Thursday said it is working with some commercial banks in Nigeria to recover the sum of N1.8 trillion from accounts of MultiChoice Nigeria Limited (MCN) And MultiChoice Africa (MCA).<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Nami.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the service decided to involve the banks as agents to aid in freezing the accounts over the inability of the groups to grant FIRS access to its servers for audit.<\/p>\n<p>The FIRS Chairman accused the companies of persistently breaching all agreements and undertakings with the service, stating that the group refused to respond to correspondences \u201cand are not transparent as they deliberately refused to allow FIRS to access their important records\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticularly, MCN has avoided giving the FIRS accurate information on the number of its subscribers and income. 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