The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on Monday said soon, Nigerians might begin to show evidence of tax payment before obtaining their passports.

Mr Tunde Fowler said this at the 136th meeting of the Joint Tax Board which had the theme: “Increased Inter-Agency Co-operation to Enhance Tax Compliance and Optimise Revenue Collection” in Abuja.

“We did take a position and I believe it would be implemented in the very near future that before you get any services from the immigration department: renewal of passports etc, you’d have to show that you are a tax payer.

“These things are normal all over the world, in an effort to serve Nigerians and Nigeria better.

“People believe that payment of tax is a burden and I’ll repeat that you only pay tax on income and profits.

“So if you reside in Nigeria and you are benefiting from being a Nigerian resident, it is only fair that you contribute to the system that makes you enjoy that standard of living.’’

He said the FIRS set a target to increase the individual taxpayer data base by 10 million by December 31.

“I’m glad with our co-operation; we’ve been able to attain 30 per cent of that. We’ve been able to get three million individual taxpayers across the nation.

“I’d like to congratulate Kano State for leading the pack by increasing the database by 944,000 followed by Lagos with 306,000 then Kaduna and Plateau,” he said.

The Corps Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, lamented that the FRSC was being owed N700 million for number plates production.

He also decried the high rate of fake documentation at ports, saying “if we can strengthen inter-agency collaboration, we’ll get more results now that the focus is on IGR”.

The Chairman of the Abia State Board of Internal Revenue, Mr Udochukwu Ogbonna, urged the revenue generating agencies to co-operate digitally to ensure success and curb corruption.

Also, the Chairman of the Edo State Internal Revenue Service, Mr Oseni Elamah, said “the FIRS should have a digital one-stop-shop accessible to all partners”.

Some revenue generating agencies on Monday met in Abuja to curtail loss, stop corruption and increase proceeds to government coffers in 2017.

The event brought together all states internal revenue service chairmen and the bosses of the Nigeria Customs Service, and the Nigeria Immigration Service. (NAN)

http://www.herald.ng/nigerians-pay-vat-international-passports-firs/#lyH3XcWArJ8FFD8d.99

Funny.

This Fowler Guy is a Clown.

You need your tax return to obtain your passport?what Country did he claim practice it?what has tax return paper got with an international passport?

Apparently he does not know what he is talking about. In Nigeria,just like Religion,it is okay to push things to the extreme.

The title is misleasding but the proof your paying taxes makes sense I guess.

APC government is still sick.Looking for money by all means.Ndi oshi them

In that case Come and collect ya passport back, something that can't take me any place reasonable without visa

We have been subsidizing this govt since 2015, yet nothing to show forrit, uhn!

We pay extra N60 per litre of pms

We pay N50 per N1000 deposited into our own acct ooo

We pay extra N65 in each 3 withdrawals

Very soon they want us to start paying for every calls that exceed 3mins

Now this

We Are Tired


They've Taxed everything possible


May God Save us all.


#Atiku2019

richidinho:
We have been subsidizing this govt since 2015, yet nothing to show forrit, uhn!

We pay extra N60 per litre of pms

We pay N50 per N1000 deposited into our own acct ooo

We pay extra N65 in each 3 withdrawals

Very soon they want us to start paying for every calls that exceed 3mins

Now this

Diversification Taxification of economy.

[size=13pt]GBAM!!! [/size]

Please i wanna sell mine

[size=40pt]Not totally bad...[/size]
But

"So if you reside in Nigeria and you are benefiting from being a Nigerian resident, it is only fair that you contribute to the system that makes you enjoy that standard of living."

Standard of living, my foot.


If given the chance, this government will sell Nigeria and Nigerians to solve their insatiable money problems...

backyard journalism. evidence of paying tax(income tax) is different from paying Vat(incorporated in sales price). Mr Fowler,go after the billionaires and pastors first, den u can com for the common man later

B.ast.ard son of a thousand fathers



make we kukuma dey pay tax for breathing too

Who has the passport helped?

Nigerians are by nature very docile..so they push all sort of trash on us..
Some will soon come along to defend this now..
All the taxes that has been paid - where is the evidence?

You mean that glorified I. D card??

This matter don tie wrapper o

The money already realized have no meaningful impact on the masses. Yet, the Government continue to make well-meaning Nigerians to pay through their nose with absolutely nothing to show for it. Anyway, it is well.

We don enter am!

Continue Federal Government , there is God oo

in a few words ... screw that shit

richidinho:
We have been subsidizing this govt since 2015, yet nothing to show forrit, uhn!

We pay extra N60 per litre of pms

We pay N50 per N1000 deposited into our own acct ooo

We pay extra N65 in each 3 withdrawals

Very soon they want us to start paying for every calls that exceed 3mins

Now this

Don't forget data tax my brother. Taxification truly not diversification

adwem2003:
Who has the passport helped?

I have been unfairly treated outside the country because of the Nigerian passport. Truly who has that passport helped??
When other countries view you as thieves, prostitutes, drug peddlers etc some incompetent clowns are busy imposing ridiculous ideas after ideas.

count:


“So if you reside in Nigeria and you are benefiting from being a Nigerian resident, it is only fair that you contribute to the system that makes you enjoy that standard of living.’’

This got me really laughing...It's either these men are retarded or just merely being mischievous..What does one really benefit from being a Nigerian citizen? I provide poor quality water for my self ,I make my own electricity using over taxed fuel, I pay for my personal ,estate and area security, I pay for exorbitant tariffs for electricity that is never available , our kids have to go to private schools because the govt has provided any reasonable school, we fix our own roads and to get the same passport he mentioned I have to pay extra in bribes so I could even get it ....somebody tell me what privilege this madman is talking of please

Clueless Government...

Blue3k:
The title is misleasding but the proof your paying taxes makes sense I guess.

is he saying an unemployed man can't have a passport? Only in Nigeria do we come out with these dumb ideas.

50% tax on data surely next week

I'm sure PMB's Zombies will go missing from here

na waooooo


dey don come again

Looks like Nigerians are starting to get a mild dose of what we experience.

Welcome to the world of being taxed to death.

This Govt is obsessed with Tax
I don't understand why the citizen would be given multiple taxation during recession
Its so annoying that the govt sees making money from its citizens as a way to get out of recession
while in other countries they try as much to relax tax and encourage spending.