The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) secretariat has explained reasons why the internally generated revenue of some states especially in the North Central improved in 2017. In his goodwill message at the North Central regional training on Tax audit and investigation for state internal revenue services in Abuja, yesterday, the executive director strategy and research of the NGF, L.O.T Shitttu attributed the rise in the states’ IGR to PAYE. LEADERSHIP recalls that Kwara (14%), Plateau (17%), Benue (30%), Kogi (18%), Nasarawa (81%) and Niger (11%) recorded remarkable growth in their annual IGR in 2017.

According to Shittu, the crisis that followed the oil price burst between 2013 and 2014 had made states look inward for ways to improve their revenue mobilisation. Consequently, he said state internal revenue services were tasked with the objective of raising internally generated revenue to stabilise recurrent receipts.

To deliver on this task, he noted that the states revenue services embarked on various reforms to revitalise the service and improve revenue outcomes. He said, “These include recruitment of professionals, conduct of sensitisation programmes, implementation of tax for service projects, deployment of innovative technologies to support tax payers enumeration and a cashless policy.

Sequel to these reforms, states recorded remarkable growth in their annual IGR including Kwara, Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa and Niger States. “However, examining the composition closely, one will observe that this was driven mainly by PAYE. While the growth is commendable, there is still room for improvement.

“Recent conversations with your revenue services indicate that tax audit cases have been on the rise with a number inconclusive, perhaps due to poor management or inadequate skilled personnel to manage them. “The outcome in some states on selected approaches contained in this training has shown that adopting a strategic and taxpayer-centric approach to tax audit is indeed key to effective tax administration. “Tax audit officers need to understand tax payer behaviour and how they think to be able to outsmart devious means they might adopt to evade taxes or under-declare taxable income”.

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Propaganda fake news from the pit of hell.

Throughout 2017 buhari and hell-rufia militias were slaughtering innocent people in the middle belt who are predominantly farmers, so what increased the IGR, human skull.