Anambra State Government Meets Representatives Of Tricyclists, Bus Drivers, Tipper Drivers And Others, Over Tax Payment Issues
Anambra state government has organized a meeting with representatives of Tricyclists, bus and minibus drivers, tipper drivers, Taxi drivers, Pick-Up drivers, motorcyclists, and other commercial automobile operators in the state over tax payment issues, to dialogue and end the recent agitations by the groups.
The meeting held at Revenue House in Awka, attracted the representatives from across the state, giving them the opportunity to air their views on the tax issue and other challenges confronting them in the state.
Addressing the groups, the state Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo represented by his Deputy, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim reminded them that his administration is people oriented and all its efforts are geared towards alleviating the plights of the people, assuring them that the government has zero tolerance for touting in the state, and warned touts that are still going about their illegal activities in the state to desist or face the full wrath of the government.
Noting that the present administration is operating on transparency and people oriented approach of governance, Governor Soludo assured the transporters that their complaints and suggestions on the taxes, persistence of touts on the state's routes, unionism, among other issues, will be looked into, in view of proffering lasting solutions to them.
The Governor, however, called on the transporters to cooperate with the government for their own good and the development of the state.
Speaking, the Chairman Anambra Internal Revenue Service, Mr Richard Madiebo told the people that the state government is not trying to make things hard for the residents but trying to end all illegal taxes and levies in the state and as well raise money for the development of the state.
Some of the operators who spoke during the meeting, including Messrs Ifeanyi Okafor, Nnamdi Ezeibe, and Uchenna Umeh assured their unalloyed support for the Professor Soludo led administration, saying that the operators are eager to pay their taxes, but the approved amounts for the tax are beyond their capability as most of them are under hire-purchase, and are with families, appealing to the state government to consider their plights and reduce the amount for them.
Recall that Anambra state government approved tax for motorcyclists is three hundred naira daily, approximately seven thousand five hundred naira monthly, or twenty-one thousand for a quarter, and Tricyclists, six hundred daily, total of fifteen thousand naira monthly, or forty-two thousand naira quarterly.
While Minibuses are to pay one thousand naira daily, at the rate of twenty-five thousand naira monthly, or seventy thousand naira for a quarter.
The daily rate for Taxi riders is seven hundred at the total of seventeen thousand naira for one month or forty-nine thousand naira quarterly.
The rate of one thousand two hundred naira daily is to be paid by Township Bus operators at the total cost of thirty thousand naira for one month, eighty-four thousand for one quarter, and Pick-up Van drivers' daily tax is one thousand naira at the cost of twenty-five thousand naira for one month, or seventy thousand naira for a quarter.
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