One week after the Integrated Logistics Services INTELs made the headlines over the termination of its initial agreement with the Nigerian Port Author
One week after the Integrated Logistics Services INTELs made the headlines over the termination of its initial agreement with the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), the company is in the news again. This time, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has accused the organisation co-founded by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Gabriele Volpi, an Italian national, of not paying taxes.
FIRS officials pasted a non-compliance sticker on the headquarters of the company in Onne, Rivers state on Monday, an action led to reports that the company had been sealed. An official of FIRS was quick to debunk that notion. “Such stickers are always pasted on the premises of companies that have not been complying with the company’s tax obligations – value-added tax Act Cap VI, and companies’ income tax, CIT Cap C21, laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2014 and other tax laws. The non-compliance stickers are routine. We did not seal nor close the company. INTELs is free to carry out its operations. It is not a restrain sticker.”
The official however refused to disclose the amount that INTELs allegedly owes.
