FIRS To Adopt NIN Database For Tax Collection

• The FIRS’ decision to integrate its tax collection and management function with the NIMC database comes just after the FRSC has said that it will only issue driver’s licences to applicants with NIN
• The Nigerian Immigration Service has also said it will request the NIN to issue or renew passports

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) is making arrangements to adopt the National Identification Number database to ramp up registration of taxpayers, data collection, and profiling in the country.

FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Nami, disclosed that the agency was working with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to achieve this, to ensure all eligible taxable persons in the country were compelled to declare and pay their taxes honestly and promptly.

He made this known on Thursday in Kaduna at the 147th meeting of the Joint Tax Board (JTB) tagged Strategic Initiative for Sustainable Revenue Generation: Prospects, Challenges, and Next Steps.

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Nami said the FIRS would adopt electronic taxation (e-Tax) to help minimise revenue leakages, limit tax evasion, and significantly improve fiscal position of state governments amid the current economic challenges.

He noted that a lot of people were making monies privately without remitting appropriate taxes, stressing that introducing new technologies into tax administration would help to curb the challenges faced in the country.

The FIRS boss said it was important for federal and state revenue generating agencies to adopt new technologies to deliver on their core mandate.

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