The VAT war currently rumbling on Nigeria’s fiscal system has taken another turn.
Rivers and Lagos State have been unfolding machinery to collect VATS in their states following judgements secured by the first.
But the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has stopped Rivers from collecting it, saying both the state and the FIRS shoudl maintain statusquo ante bellun.
Specifically, it ordered all the parties that have subjected themselves before it to “refrain from taking any action to give effect to the judgement of the Rivers State High Court”, which gave Rivers State Government the right to collect VAT revenue, instead of the FIRS.
A three-man panel of Justices of the appellate court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani made the order after it deferred hearing of an application Lagos State filed to be joined as an interested party in the matter, till September 16.
