The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has announced the opening of 25 new tax offices across the country.
These new tax offices are part of the FIRS goal to bring its services nearer to the tax paying public, according to a statement yesterday by the Special Assistant to the Executive Chairman, FIRS, Johannes Wojuola.
The statement added that “these new tax offices will help bring many taxpayers into the tax net, help filling of Companies Income Tax (CIT), and Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as monitor compliance with other taxes.”
Speaking at the launch of one of these new tax offices — the Micro and Small Tax Office, Epe, Lagos, last week, the Group Lead, General Tax Operations Group, Kabir Abba, said the FIRS Management holds these offices as important, and expects them to spearhead tax collection activities in the area.
He quoted the Executive Chairman, FIRS, Muhammed Nami, as directing the staff at these offices to take the assignment very seriously while working tenaciously towards bringing more taxpayers into the tax net.
Nami had noted that the deployment of technology had made their work easy, especially that the taxpayers could work from the comfort of their offices and homes, to register for tax, file returns and pay their taxes in a quick and seamless manner, including applying for their Tax Clearance Certificate (TCC).
These new tax offices will help bring many taxpayers into the tax net, help filling of Companies Income Tax (CIT), and Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as monitor compliance with other taxes.
Also addressing the Tax Officers at Epe, the Director Technical of the Service, who also serves as the Chairman of the New Satellite Tax Offices Implementation Committee, Iro Ukpai, urged the office to reciprocate the confidence entrusted to them by the management.
He charged them to ensure that they go all out to the field to bring all the Taxpayers who have not been paying their taxes into the tax net.
The Tax Controller, Chinedu Adirije, in his comments promised the Group Lead that the Tax Office is ready to do its best to bring in all the leaking tax revenues from Epe into the government purse and contribute towards realizing the N10.4 trillion target given to the FIRS by the government.
