The Osun State Government has said it will soon investigate federal, state and private establishments to verify how much taxes they should pay to the state’s coffers.
The Acting Chairman, Osun State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Olufemi Balogun, who said this in Osogbo on Tuesday, explained that the move was to enable the state recover taxes it was being owed.
Balogun appealed to the agencies and institutions to remit all outstanding taxes to the state government’s purse with a threat to publish the names of defaulters and how much they owed.
“The state will soon deploy its men to conduct backdated investigation of federal, state and private establishments to recover all unpaid taxes. All institutions and establishments must, as a matter of law, pay all outstanding taxes without further delay,” he said.
Meanwhile, the management of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital has begun negotiations with the state government on the payment of its alleged N3.1bn outstanding tax liability.
Following the commencement of negotiations with the revenue agency, the government reopened the administrative complex of the OAUTH, which it had on Monday shut.
The Chief Medical Director, OAUTH, Prof. Sanya Adejuyigbe, who led the accounting officers of the hospital to the negotiations, appealed to the state government to give the management 14 days to ascertain the N3.1bn alleged unpaid taxes it claimed the hospital owed.