Filling stations in Anambra state, have shut down business due to high levies of tax imposed on them by the state government. On Wednesday, June 2, 2015, residents woke up to another round of fuel scarcity as motorists and other users of petrol resorted to buying black market for as much as N500 per litre.
Most filling stations shut down business in order to protest against the high levy imposed on them by the state government.
According to Punch, one of the product marketers, Joseph Nwakpadolu disclosed that an emergency meeting was held to discuss the levies and taxes imposed on them which could possibly kill their business.
He said, “We met to discuss the high levies the government has billed our businesses; they are giving us a combined bill of over N500, 000 per year exclusive of tax. Our position is that the amount is high and cannot be sustained if we must remain in business”.
However, the Chairman, Petroleum Dealers Association of Nigeria, Anambra State chapter, Chief Osita Ofodile, confirmed that the marketers were being asked to pay over N500, 000 each, which their colleagues in other states were paying.
It would be recalled that fuel scarcity was at its height recently as tanker drivers reduced to operate which resulted in the breakdown of Nigeria’s economy in the last days of the past administration.
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