Appeal Court Sits To Determine Lagos’ Fate On VAT Collection

• The Court of Appeal in Abuja will at any moment deliver a ruling in an application by the Lagos State Government seeking to be made a party and co-respondent in the appeal filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, against the Rivers State Government.

FIRS, in an appeal marked CA/PH/282/2021, is praying the court to invalidate the judgment of a Rivers State High Court which granted the power to the state to collect Value Added Tax, VAT.

EkohotBlog reports that the tax collection agency is also asking the appellate court to stay the execution of Rivers’ judgment on Value Added Tax (VAT)

At the resumption of the matter, Lagos State brought an application request that the court should allow them to join the suit as a respondent.

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The ground of the application by the Lagos State government was that it is an interested party has been collecting VAT in Lagos.

In the application argued by the states’ Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo, Lagos insisted that the decision of the Court of Appeal in the matter will affect it one way or the other.

Onigbanjo pleaded that the state is allowed to join so as to use the suit to protect its interest.

However, counsel to FIRS, Mahmoud Magaji opposed the application stating that Lagos was not a party at the Rivers State High Court where the judgment being challenged was delivered initially.

A three-man panel led by Justice H. S Zamani rose to write ruling in the matter and which is billed to be delivered.

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