By Special Correspondent

The Enugu State Internal Revenue Service has sealed Enugu ShopRite and SPAR over non-remittances of purchase tax in their malls to the government.

In a statement issued by the service on Tuesday morning after the enforcement drive, ESIRS accused the malls and stores affected of refusing to remit withholding purchase taxes despite being served several warning notices.

According to a statement signed by the service spokesperson, Nnamdi Eneh, ESiRS officials also sealed Roban Stores and Mama Onyinye restaurant among others for the same offence.

Eneh said that taxes the government is demanding from the malls, stores and businesses include purchase tax on the goods that the buyers pay whenever they patronise their outlets.

He quoted the ESIRS HOD eateries, bars, hotels, and shopping malls, Perpetual Egwuonwu to have said the agency has visited the sealed malls on several