Wednesday, 9 March 2016

AKWA IBOM TO COLLECT TAX FOR CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL





     -    The A’Ibom Commisssioner for Finance, Mr Akan Okon, said consumption of alcohol in hotels and beer parlour in the state would now attract tax.

-    -      Okon told journalists in Uyo on Saturday that people who consumed alcoholic drinks would begin to pay a token as tax.
-   -       The taxes will be paid into the state government accounts.
-    -      The Commissioner, however, decried the attitude of some businessmen in the informal sector of the economy who failed to pay tax to government.
        CULLED FROM THE NIGERIAN PULSE.

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