Breaking News: Rivers Drags FG To Supreme Court Over VAT Collection

Rivers State government, through its Attorney-General, has headed to the Supreme Court to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal that ordered the state to maintain status quo on the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, pending the determination of an appeal that was lodged by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS.

Rivers state government, in its nine grounds of appeal, prayed to the apex court to order that the substantive appeal by the FIRS, marked CA/PH/282/2021, and all other processes therein, be heard and determined by a new panel of the Court of Appeal, EkohotBlog reports.

The Attorney-General of the Federation was cited as Respondents in the appeal that Rivers State entered through its team of lawyers led by Emmanuel Ukala, SAN.

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