By Dada Ahmed in Lokoja.
The Kogi State Internal Revenue Service, KGIRS, said it generated N18 billion in 2023 while targeting N23 billion revenue in 2023.
The Executive Chairman of KGIRS, Alhaji Sule Salihu Enehe, disclosed this as contained in the latest edition of KGIRS News Letter, a copy of which was made available to The Reporters in Lokoja on Friday.
Enehe further revealed that the Service had fully embraced the use of technology to improve tax compliance in its operations.
He expressed optimism that through improved service delivery,via technology, the State could conveniently generate the N23 billion expected in the 2023 budget.
The Executive Chairman, who noted that the world is going technological for ease of doing business and rendering services, stressed that the Service had enhanced convenience, efficiency, and productivity e-tax services to ensure that issues concerning touting become a thing of the past.
"The e-tax would, henceforth, cause improved management of tax payments in the State as the Service gears towards improving better service delivery in the State.
"Beginning from 2023, KGIRS will establish tax stations in all the local government areas to offer services relating to tax payment and through the electronic-Tax Clearance Certificate(TCC) Solution, Enehe said.
Other services, according to him, include, "e-tax payment, pre-tax receiving, e-filing, pre-tax portal, taxpayer registration and verification, and personal income, including the under-exploited informal sector."
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