FIRS Seals –Off Ebonyi Ex-Gov, Sam Egwu’s Hotel Over N5 Million Tax Default
The Federal Inland Revenue Service,( FIRS), has sealed off Grace Court Hotel and Suites belonging to Senator Sam Egwu, former governor of Ebonyi State over sundry tax liabilities.
It was learnt that Egwu’s hotel, located at 14, NNA Street, Abakaliki, was said owing about N5 million in sundry tax liabilities, such as Company Income Tax (CIT), Excess Dividend Tax (EDT) and Value Added Tax (VAT).
Witnesses said the FIRS enforcement team met a stiff resistance as a man said to be a son of the sitting Senator resisted them.
“But through the intervention of the Commissioner of Police for Ebonyi State Command, Titus Lamorde, who dispatched a special team of operatives, the FIRS team eventually executed the warrant of destraint earlier served the hotel management by the revenue-collecting agency,” source said.
It was also gathered that the FIRS team shut the Sacramental Resources Ltd situated at Water Works road, Abakaliki, for an outstanding 2016 tax debt of N454,000.
