The Kogi State government has claimed not to involve itself in the quest to retain the Value Added Tax as embarked on by the governments of Lagos and Rivers.
It could be recalled that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, had signed a bill on VAT followed by an order requiring businesses to henceforth pay VAT to the state and not to the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
He announced that the payment of VAT to the state will commence this September.
This was after a judgment by a federal high court in Port Harcourt restrained the FIRS from collecting VAT in the state.
The Lagos State government, in line with the judgment, also passed a VAT bill and asked the FIRS to stop collecting VAT from businesses in the state.
The move by both states was opposed by Kogi State through the Commissioner of Information, Kingsley Fanwo, in an interview with Arise TV on Friday.
He said, “We are not created equally, and God that created us did not give us equal potential, and we have to support one another.”