Property Tax Is Backed by Harmonization Law,-Executive Chairman NBIRS Tell Indigenes of Karu Local Government

Rabiu Omaku

The Executive Chairman of the Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Ahmed Yakubu has told the Indigenes of Karu that the gateway to the Federal Capital Territory to comply with the new property Tax that is not something alien to the State was backed up by the harmonization law promulgated by the Nasarawa State House of Assembly and assented by Engineer, Abdullahi Sule, The State Governor.

The Chairman gave the hint during a chat with selected Journalists at the glass house.

Yakubu explained that property tax was the brainchild of harmonization law encapsulated in the State tax law.

Advising the purported protesting people of Karu and other Local Governments to see the property tax as a law with complete back-up by tax law. –

Ahmed Yakubu buttressed that payment of tax is a civic responsibility of all and sundry, adding that all development ranging from good schools, provision of portable drinking water, good hospitals, and roads would be made available to citizenry if citizens pay their tax as at when due.

“To erase doubt by the people of Karu Local Government, the new property tax was a brainchild of the recent harmonization law, It could be recalled that there was a purported press release in which he explained that the NSBIR are embarking on illegal exercise, but what we are doing was encapsulated in the harmonization law.

In a related development, the executive Chairman of the Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Services has called on taxpayers to ensure that they pay their tax as at when due.

The Chairman affirmed that the autonomy of the board serves as a simple seater and a leeway to prosperity.

Ahmed Yakubu in an interaction with Journalists buttressed that the granting of independence to the Board of Internal Revenue Service was in the right direction and timely.

The Chairman reeled out some of the strides of the BIRS to include the motivation of staff, which he opined was meant to increase productivity.

“The motivation of our staff range from the supply of working tools such as motorcycles, laptop, and Internet Service to enhance their productivity as well as the renovation of our zonal offices cut across zones”.

The Chairman Board of Internal Revenue Services hinted at one of the major challenges in Karu, the gateway to the Federal Capital Territory to an eyebrow raised over the introduction of property law.

Saying the new property law was the brainchild of the harmonization law passed into law by the Nasarawa State House of Assembly last year.