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FG Initiates Nationwide Tax Awareness Campaign by seunlly(m): 1:50am On Jun 16, 2017 |
—The Federal Government has initiated a
nationwide tax awareness campaign to capturing 70 million
more tax payers in its net.
Briefing the press, yesterday, in Abuja on the initiative,
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said 7,500 young
graduates would be recruited for that purpose.
According to her, those to undertake the campaign will be
engaged for a fixed term of two years.
She said those to be recruited, who would be christened
Community Tax Liaison Officers, CTLO, would be trained
and deployed to communities to raise awareness and
educate citizens at all levels on the tax system in Nigeria
and why they should pay their taxes.
Specifically CTLOs would: “Increase tax awareness to raise
compliance; educate all citizens on the tax system; tax
outreach to increase the number of tax payers; and enroll
new tax payers.”
The minister explained that the CTLOs would not act as
tax collectors, as their mandate would be to only educate
the public on the nation’s tax system and the benefits of
taxation.
Justifying the CTLO initiative, Mrs. Adeosun said: “With a
tax to GDP ratio of only 6 per cent, one of the lowest in
the world and 14 million tax payers out of 69.6 million
economically active people (20 per cent), there is a lot of
work to be done in creating awareness and bringing
people into the tax system.”
“A CTLO is not expected to assess people for tax purposes
or collect taxes on behalf of the Federal Government of
Nigeria. We will recruit up to 7,500 CTLOs through the
N-Power Program.”
On the campaign strategy, she said CTLOs would be
deployed nationwide and would address the public in places
within each community, especially markets, schools,
churches, mosques and airports.
Mrs. Adeosun said that the diversification of the nation’s
economy had made it imperative to increase the number
of tax payers and that with a larger tax payers base who
pay a little each, the tax revenue would significantly
appreciate.
She added that tax administration in the country has been
designed in such a way that those who earn small incomes
pay very little tax, while high income earners, pay larger
taxes.
The Chairman of the Federal Inland revenue, Mr. Tunde
Fowler, added that graduates between the ages of 18 and
35 would be recruited through the N-Power website under
the tab, “N-Power Tax”.
He said that all an interested applicant needed to do would
be to visit the N-Power website
at www.npower.gov.ng for full eligibility requirements.
According to him, “CTLOs would enjoy performance based
incentives as well as the opportunity to be sponsored to
pursue professional tax examinations if they qualify.” mloaded.com.ng/2017/06/16/fg-initiates-nationwide-tax-awareness-campaign/ Cc. Mynd44 |
Re: FG Initiates Nationwide Tax Awareness Campaign by olaniyi0(m): 2:23am On Jun 16, 2017 |
Yeye dey smell for their body, smh. |
Re: FG Initiates Nationwide Tax Awareness Campaign by seunlly(m): 2:34am On Jun 16, 2017 |
olaniyi0:hmmm. |
Re: FG Initiates Nationwide Tax Awareness Campaign by Iykefirm(m): 7:10am On Jun 16, 2017 |
fg should not go about taxing the masses to suffering,they should simply pass stamp duty act into law so to enable them generate billions within a month,you must affix 50naira stamp duty to the recipt of any valuable item you purchase,food stuffs,wears should be exempted from the act,rather any house property like television set,funitures,and make nigerian postal service more effective with these it can employ thousands of work force to compete with labour market,thanks |
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