{"id":82387,"date":"2021-09-14T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=82387"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:32:26","slug":"rivers-govt-drags-fg-to-supreme-court-over-vat-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/14\/rivers-govt-drags-fg-to-supreme-court-over-vat-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers govt drags FG to Supreme Court over VAT revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State government, through its Attorney-General, has gone to the Supreme Court to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal that ordered it to maintain status quo on the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, pending the determination of an appeal that was lodged by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/10\/appeal-court-halts-rivers-lagos-from-collecting-vat\/\">State<\/a>, in its nine grounds of appeal on Tuesday, is praying the apex court to order that the substantive appeal by the FIRS, marked CA\/PH\/282\/2021, and all other processes therein, be heard and determined by a new panel of the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the FIRS, the Attorney-General of the Federation was cited as Respondents in the appeal that Rivers State entered through its team of lawyers led by Emmanuel Ukala, SAN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to come&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State government, through its Attorney-General, has gone to the Supreme Court to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal that ordered it to maintain status quo on the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, pending the determination of an appeal that was lodged by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS. 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