BENIN CITY – Edo State Internal Revenue Service has taken a stand against illegality with the warning to trade associations to desist from unauthorized revenue collections. The Executive Chairman, Edo State Internal Revenue Service (EIRS), Igbinidu Inneh while handing down this warning during a tax engagement meeting with executives of Electronics and Computer Dealers Association of Nigeria (ECDAN), stated, “The sole government’s institution legally recognized to collect and account for generated revenue is the EIRS.” Taking this stand against the backdrop that the Personal Income Tax Act (PITA) prohibits trade associations from collecting taxes on behalf of government, representative of the EIRS boss and Executive Director, Income Tax, Prince Felix Isuku, urged the association to be tax compliant by contributing their quota to the development of Edo State through the payment of taxes for sustainable infrastructural and human capital development.