Osun State Internal Revenue Service has said it would begin to clamp down on business premises that have failed to fulfill their tax obligations to the government.
In a statement he issued on Saturday, OIRS Information Officer, Oluwaseun Ayeni, said the agency chairman, Mr Adesola Adewumi, gave the warning during an awareness campaign held in Osogbo, the state capital.
While warning that by Monday, the state government would seal off the defaulting business premises, Adewumi said all tax-defaulting businesses in the state should pay up their dues before the clampdown would begin.
The OIRS chairman, who was represented by the Director of Legal and Enforcement of the Agency, Mr Deji Atoyebi, said the statewide enforcement was due by May.
“The Board of OIRS had concluded plans to begin tax enforcement against defaulters if they continue to fail in fulfilling their tax obligations to the state government.
“We therefore advise all tax defaulting businesses in the state to avoid any inconveniences that may arise during the closure.
“The businesses have been served with harmonised demand notices to do the needful before the state would embark on enforcement/closure to bring the defaulters to book,” he stated.
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