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| Prof. Brambiafa (Ag. MD, NDDC) & Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor. |
The
Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as a responsible corporate
organisation, wishes to state clearly that it has not defaulted in meeting its
tax obligations to the Rivers State Internal Revenue Services, RIRS.
The
Commission states through a statement by her Director of Corporate Affairs,
Charles Obi Odili says that she is surprised that the state revenue agency is
claiming an outstanding of Fifty Billion Naira (N50,000,000.00), which through
records available at NDDC, is not correct.
According
to Charles Obi Odili, NDDC is rather curious that the RIRS would rush to seal
the gates of the Commission, disrupting activities at its headquarters, without
any form of notification, and we have had cause to discuss our tax obligations
with officials of the RIRS in the past and all the grey areas were resolved
amicably. It is, therefore, an act of bad faith for the revenue agency to begin
to take actions that impugns on the reputation of an interventionist agency
that is serving the people of the Niger Delta region and for the avoidance of
doubt, the Commission has as recent as January, 2019, settled its outstanding
tax obligations to the RIRS.
Stressing
further, Mr. Obi Odili says that the NDDC had cleared all Withholding tax (WHT)
on enterprises and Pay as your earn (PAYE) up to March, 2019, including
arrears. If there is any other issue of outstanding tax obligation
(underpayment), it will only come up after reconciliation, and until then, we
cannot establish or determine under-payment or over-payment, as our books are
open for audit or reconciliation.
It
is not right for only one party to claim to have established that there is
under payment or overpayment. That can only come to play after a thorough audit
exercise and NDDC can under the circumstances safely say that the RIRS came to
seal off our premises without due process, as notice of non-compliance was neither
issued nor served on the commission before the RIRS action and therefore call
on the revenue agency to remove the sealing order on our premises to enable
both parties enter into dialogue and agreeably resolve our differences, the
statement concludes.
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