Kogi state internal revenue service has commenced prosecution of dubious staff and touts for generating fake Tax Clearance Certificates TCC for gullible customers, Acting Executive Chairman of KGIRS, Alhaji Sule Salihu Enehe, has disclosed.
The state Chief Tax Administrator disclosed to Journalists that some corrupt staff and touts of the service have been identified, and they are facing prosecution for involvement in issuance of fake Tax Clearance Certificates TCC, adding that fake TCCs are no longer in the state.
Alhaji Enehe also said that the state internal revenue service has generated sum of eighteen billion naira for kogi state government 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, spoke with Journalists on Friday while presenting end of year 2022 report on electronic tax services by the state revenue agency.
Mr Enehe, who gave a rundown of the tax Collection procceses, achievements and innovations on tax administration in the state, presented a service Charter to the public with a view to improving 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 wishes and aspirations 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 kogi state internal revenue service had created e-platform for all tax payments aimed at customer convenience and effective tax administration system as corporate organizations and individuals doing businesses 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 on taxation matters has been set up and the tribunal has been inaugurated three weeks ago by Secretary to Kogi state government Dr Folashade Ayoade unbehalf of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.
Enehe, listed the achievements
Under his tenure to include deployment of central billing system, establishment of Tax stations in all local government headquarters, adoption of appropriate risk management technique, 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.
