
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has announced the opening of 25 new Tax Offices across the country.
These new Tax Offices, approved by the Muhammad Nami led management, are part of the Service’s goal to bring tax services nearer to the tax paying public while bringing FIRS nearer to the public.
This was disclosed in statement issued on Wednesday by Johannes Oluwatobi Wojuola, special assistant on media and communication to Muhammad Nami, FIRS chairman.
The new offices were established to help the FIRS meet its revenue target of N10.1 trillion for 2022.
According to the statement, these new tax offices are part of the agency’s goal to “bring tax services nearer to the taxpaying public while bringing FIRS nearer to the public”.
These new Tax Offices would help bring many taxpayers into the tax net, help filling of Companies Income Tax, and Value Added Tax as well as monitor compliance with other Taxes.
Speaking at the launch of one of these new offices — the micro and small tax office, Epe, Lagos — Kabir Abba, group lead, general tax operations group at FIRS, said the FIRS management holds these offices as important, and expects them to spearhead tax collection activities in the area.
He said the agency’s chairman had directed staff at these offices to take the assignment very seriously, while working tenaciously towards bringing more taxpayers into the tax net.