Toyota Nigeria paying correct import duty, says Customs

• NCS gets Toyota customer of the year prize

Toyota Nigeria has been paying the correct import duty on new vehicles it brings into the country, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has confirmed.

The NCS stated this at a ceremony in Abuja where Toyota Nigeria honoured the Customs as the Customer of the Year.

Assistant Comptroller General, Headquarters, Muhammed Abba-Kura, who represented Comptroller General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (rtd), said, “Toyota Nigeria Limited has been consistently compliant with extant fiscal policies regarding their importations, paying appropriate duty always.”

At the ceremony, Toyota Nigeria presented two units of brand new digital Sharp photocopiers AR-6031N to the NCS in recognition of patronage by the Nigeria Customs in the year 2019.

The NCS in a statement issued by DSC Abdullahi Maiwada, Public Relations Headquarters, said that the “special package was presented in recognition of the Service emergence as Customer of the year 2019 by Mr Olaleye Ige, branch Manager, Northern Operation, Elizade Nigeria Limited at the Service Headquarters in Abuja.

“While receiving the items on behalf of the Comptroller General of Customs, Col Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), the Assistant Comptroller General, Headquarters, Muhammed Abba-Kura, appreciated the gift and commended the cordial relationship between the two organisations.“

The ACG stressed the commitment of the Service to sustaining such partnership in the interest of national growth and development.