N8.6m tax: Abia revenue board seals off UNICEM Cement office in Aba

The Abia State Board of Internal Revenue [BIR] has sealed off the office of UNICEM cement depot in Aba for their inability to remit the workers Pay As You Earn [PAYE] tax which has amounted to N8.6 million for the period of 2006-2011.
The sealing off of the office complex situated at off Okigwe road in Aba was carried out by the executive secretary of the BIR, Ibeabuchi Adindu and the bailiff of the state high court in Umuahia, Emma Nwogu, who said that the office will remain closed until the outstanding tax money was paid.
Nwogu said the office had been duly served with the demand notice for the remittance of the amount stated above, which is due to the Abia State Revenue Service, “and the defendant did not make the remittance within the time limited by the demand notice.”
In a warrant and authority signed by Justice K. O. Wosu, which read in part: “It has been proved on oath that the PAYE Tax audit report and demand notice have been duly served on the defendant aforesaid in accordance with the Abia State Board of Internal Revenue Law No. 7 of 2008 and the remittance was not made and there is no objection to the tax liability. You are commended forthwith to make distress of the premises/property of the defendant and to the value of N8.6 million and if within the space of fourteen days next after making of such distress, unless the revenue debtor consents in writing to an earlier sale. The sum stated at the foot of this warrant, together with the reasonable cost and charge of the making and keeping of the said distress, be not paid, then to sell the said property and pay the money arising there from to the registrar of this court, if no such distress can be found.”

- The Citizen

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