By Emma Una
CALABAR —PEACE Mass Transit, a popular mass transport company that operates in Cross River State and other states in the South-South and South-East has bemoaned the multiple taxes and levies imposed on it by agents of the Cross River State Government and has threatened to vacate the state if the trend continues.
Managing Director of the company, Dr Sam Onyishi, in a letter to the Cross River State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Asuquo Ekpenyong, obtained by Vanguard, said the persistent and unfriendly activities of persons who parade themselves as state and local government representatives on levies and taxes in various forms were ruining the operations of the company in the state.
He said: “These persons have continually inundated us with requests for all manner of levies and taxes including those we are not owing.
“May we point out to you sir, that one sure implication of these people whom we refrain from calling touts is disruption of our business, consequently, damage to our investment and we have genuine fears that with this state of affairs, we are being forced out of Calabar and other cities in the state.”
Contacted, Chairman, Internal Revenue Service, Dr Ukam Edodi, said only consultants were authorised to collect revenue on behalf of the government as he warned touts harassing companies and individuals to desist from such actions.
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