The Kogi state internal revenue service has generated the sum of eighteen billion naira as internally generated revenue IGR.
The state had made a budget estimate of twenty-three billion naira from internally generated revenue for this year, but only eighteen billion naira was raised by the state revenue service due to shortfalls in revenue generation this year.
Acting Executive Chairman of the state revenue service, Mr. Sule Salihu Enehe, announced this on Friday while presenting the end-of-year 2022 report on electronic tax services by the state revenue agency.
Mr. Enehe, who gave a rundown of the tax collection processes, achievements and innovations in tax administration in the state, presented a service charter to the public to improve the efficiency of tax administration under his chairmanship.
The Executive Chairman said the service charter provides operational guidelines to the staff of the agency and the general public aimed at improvement in revenue generation to achieve maximum tax compliance, adding that, “we are responsive to the yawning of the people.”
The state Chief Tax Administrator disclosed that corrupt staff of the service and touts have been identified by the service and they are facing prosecution for fake Tax Clearance Certificates (TCC) adding that fake TCCs are no longer obtainable in the state.
Mr. Enehe, said the kogi state internal revenue service had created an e-platform for all tax payments aimed at customer convenience and an effective tax administration system as corporate organizations and individuals doing business in the state remit taxes to the state government through e-filing of all taxes, which is now from 1st January to 31st of January, each year.
A tax tribunal to adjudicate taxation matters has been set up and the tribunal has been inaugurated three weeks ago by the Secretary to the Kogi state government Dr. Folashade Ayoade on behalf of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.
Enehe listed the achievements under his tenure including the deployment of a central billing system, establishment of Tax stations in all local government headquarters, adoption of appropriate risk management techniques, deployment of modern technologies, award of 13th-month bonus to staff, payment of outstanding consultancy fees to the KGIRS Consultants, continuous training and retraining of all cadre of staff and installation of a 33kva Generator for uninterrupted power supply to the corporate headquarters of KGIRS for enhanced operations.
Dominica Nwabufo
