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Mr Christopher Maikalangu, Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), on Tuesday, inaugurated a task force to check revenue leakages in the area council.
Maikalangu while inaugurating the team at the council’s secretariat, charged the members to ensure there were no double taxation on residents and also ensure that that they work within the ambits of the law.
He said that the task force would work with mobile courts, lawyers as well as security agents to curtail the nefarious activities of fake and illegal revenue collectors in the council.
“This task force on revenue Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement is inaugurated today, alongside the Mobile Court, to monitor revenue activities within the council especially, the activities of revenue collectors and consultants.
“The task force is to investigate, discover and stop the activities of fake revenue collectors within the council.
“The task force is to bring sanity in the revenue sector by identifying grey areas, if any, on the field with a view to mitigating uncovered anomalies.
“Members are also to fish out touts and miscreants who are often fake in the field and hand them over for prosecution accordingly,” he said.
He urged the task force to identify incidences of double taxation and report back to my office for further necessary action and where there are clear incidences of double taxation, advise appropriately, how such revenue heads can and should be harmonised.
Above all, he said, the task force is expected to identify tax evaders, arrest and prosecute offenders with a view to restoring sanity in the system by developing database for effective resource and revenue mobilization for sustainable development of AMAC.
The chairman said in view of the seriousness of the assignment, a Standing Mobile Court has been set up to entertain all forms of revenue matters within our office at Apo Secretariat to try anyone found wanting in the process.
He called on the team to ensure that residents are not molested, even as he urged them to desist from all corrupt practices.
The chairman assured AMAC residents and its revenue paying public to bear with the council at it fulfill its vision for a rapid economic recovery, good governance and accelerated sustainable development in the area council.
Speaking, Mr Yunusa Ahmadu, the task force Chairman, appreciated the AMAC chairman for inaugurating the team, while assuring of their readiness to record success in the next few months.
He called on business owners to pay their tax directly to the AMAC designated account, adding that anyone who pays to a fake revenue collector, would pay twice.
“We are not touts, we won’t work like the other people. We will work within the ambits of the law.
“I want to use this opportunity to warn that anyone who pays money to fake revenue agents in the name of AMAC would have to pay double.
“We are grateful to the chairman for giving us all we require to work, including lawyers, mobile court and security agents, we will not disappoint,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ten-member committee supervising the taskforce, has Mr Yunusa Ahmadu as its chairman, Mr Kingsley Madaki as secretary and Chief Magistrate Habiba Bello as Mobile Court Magistrate.(NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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edited by Sadiya Hamza
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