“WE’R​E COMING AFTER BILLIONAIRE TAX DEFAULTERS” - FIRS

The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tunde fowler, has vowed that FIRS would soon come after billionaires who are tax defaulters. Fowler spoke yesterday, September 6, 2018, at a stakeholders’ meeting at Lagos on ‘Tax administration and National Revenue’. He also disclosed that the Service would commence audit of taxpayers across the country in efforts at boosting revenue for the nation.

He also said that the FIRS generated a total of N3.5tn from taxes between January and August this year, more than N1tn higher than the revenue for the same period of 2017. 

Find links to the full story below.

-FIRS Press Release on Nationwide Taxpayer Audit  - FIRS Webiste​

-FIRS to sell tax evaders’ properties, freeze 6,772 accounts – The Punch Newspaper​ 

-FG Rakes N3.5tn Taxes in Eight Months – ThisDay Newspaper 

-N28bn unremitted tax collections worrisome – Fowler – Daily Trust 

-FIRS to Commence Audits of Taxpayers Nationwide – Fowler – Leadership​

-FIRS TO COMMENCE AUDIT OF TAXPAYERS NATIONWIDE – FOWLER Sunnews