Tax Matters

Tax Matters

FIRS boss tasks tax officials on MDGs, Vision 2020 goals

March 2011 Economic Confidential

Encouraged by the support of government toward its activities and the remarkable tax revenues raked into government’s coffers in past years, the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, has charged all employees of the Service to put more of their efforts to work in the fiscal year in order to improve tax administration and service delivery in the country.

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I’m not a ‘tax collector’, says Omoigui Okauru

February 2011

She is the nation’s Chief Tax Collector.
But Executive Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okauru stunned the audience in Abuja yesterday when she declared that she is not a tax collector.

Hear her: “When people ask what my job is, I said I am not a tax collector. Nor a tax administrator.

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More Agitations against Multiple Taxation as Tax revenue hits N2tr

January 2011 Economic Confidential

The Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Ifueko Omoigui Okauru has disclosed that multiple taxation are inimical to economic development, just as the said that the economic reforms have pushed tax revenue to N2.2 trillion despite all odds.

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Court jails chartered accountant over N7.3 million tax fraud, forgery

December 2010 Economic Confidential

• remands 3 Skye Bank staff for diverting The Guardian tax cheques
• Accountant forged FIRS’ signature
For conniving, with three staff of Skye Bank Nigeria Plc, to defraud the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS of N7.3 million, a chartered accountant, Mr. Abayomi Sofolayan, is to spend 18 months in jail.

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Joint Tax Board Communique of November 29, 2010

December 2010 Economic Confidential

Communiqué issued at the end of the 123rd Meeting of the Joint Tax Board held from 29th November to 1st December, 2010 at the Conference Hall, Muna Hotels, Yola, Adamawa State.

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