The Acting Executive Chairman of Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS), Sule Salihu Enehe has inaugurated the a joint enforcement taskforce to drive daily collection of infrastructure maintenance levy (IML) from commercial transporters.
At the inauguration of the taskforce in Lokoja on Monday, Enehe explained that the infrastructure maintenance levy (IML) is a state collectible in accordance with Section 32 (4)(6) of the Kogi State Harmonization of Taxes Law, 2017.
He noted that members of the taskforce were drafted from the various unions including the Nigerian Motorcycle Transport Union, Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria, National Union of Road Transport Workers and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria.
Enehe said the team is an independent taskforce.
“This is a daily levy that commercial transporters pay to state government under the law.
“Having automated the collection process, commercial transporters of the various transport unions are expected to pay the IML through accredited POS terminals on the road while going about their daily commercial activities.
“The IML tax item has not been doing well since the inception of the revenue agency in 2016. It is about time that the new administration in KGIRS prioritised IML to get it working as this represents a great watershed in the revenue collection effort of the agency,” he stated.
