{"id":86394,"date":"2021-09-25T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=86394"},"modified":"2021-09-25T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T12:37:52","slug":"states-have-no-valid-claim-on-vat-collection-says-malami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/25\/states-have-no-valid-claim-on-vat-collection-says-malami\/","title":{"rendered":"States have no valid claim on VAT collection, says Malami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami has disclosed that no state has the power to lay claim to the collection of value-added tax (VAT) in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed on Friday by Malami during an interview with Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) recently has been in a legal tussle over with\u00a0Rivers and Lagos state governments over VAT collection.<\/p>\n<p>However, some states have rallied in support of the FIRS.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the controversy, a court of appeal in Abuja\u00a0ordered both Rivers and Lagos states to maintain the status quo over the collection of VAT.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the development, Malami said the collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/25\/ondo-police-arrest-dog-for-biting-university-students-private-parts\/\">VAT<\/a> in the country is under the exclusive legislative list, adding that only the national assembly has the power to make laws on VAT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot has precluded the state from collecting value-added tax. One, generally speaking, as you rightly know, the issue of the value-added tax is an issue on the exclusive legislative list,\u201d Malami said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the implication of being in exclusive legislative list matter is that only the national assembly can legislate on it. The question that you may perhaps wish to address your mind on is whether there exists any national legislation that has conferred the power on the state to collect VAT. And my answer is \u2018no\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the absence of a law passed by the national assembly in that direction, no state can have a valid claim to collection of value-added tax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe responsibility, right and constitutional powers to legislate on collection of VAT is exclusively and constitutionally vested in the national assembly and not in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the national assembly has not passed any law in that regard authorising the state to collect VAT, then it goes without saying that no state can arrogate unto itself the powers to collect VAT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malami added that it would amount to \u201crecklessness\u201d for any state to go ahead to collect VAT, despite the court\u2019s decision asking parties to maintain the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any state perhaps taking the law unto its hands without allowing the judicial process to take its natural course and in breach of the prevailing legislation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see the states acting arbitrarily and setting a very bad precedence as far as governance is concerned with particular regard to the fact that the matter is receiving judicial determination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t understand. I can\u2019t perhaps bring that thought into consideration that I believe it could amount to a high level of recklessness on the part of any state government to be operating in breach and to be operating a lawless governance style as far as the Nigerian state is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami has disclosed that no state has the power to lay claim to the collection of value-added tax (VAT) in the country. This was disclosed on Friday by Malami during an interview with Channels Television. The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) recently has been in a legal tussle over with\u00a0Rivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":54953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1686,1180,385,17648],"class_list":["post-86394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-abubakar-malami","tag-firs","tag-rivers-state","tag-vat-collection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>States have no valid claim on VAT collection, says Malami<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Attorney-general of the 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