Tag Archives: Babatunde Fowler

President Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr. Muhammad M. Nami as the new chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

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Revenue generation by the 36 states of the federation has risen from N800.02 billion in 2016 to N1.6 trillion in 2018, representing a 46.11 per cent rise, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Internal Revenue Service (FIRS).

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Dr Babatunde Fowler, Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service, says taxation remains the country’s lifeline for economic development.

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Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said in Abuja on Wednesday that the N5 billion fraud being investigated by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was pilfered from the operational/travel funds of its expenditure budget and not from taxpayers’ money.

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The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Tunde Fowler has disclosed that the agency has given itself a target of N8 trillion revenue in 2019. To this end, it called on all taxpayers and other stakeholders to support the drive to make the target achievable. The FIRS boss who disclosed this at the organisation’s 2019 management and stakeholders’ retreat, …

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This was disclosed by Mr. Tunde Fowler, Chairman, Joint Tax Board (JTB) and Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) at the 142nd meeting of the JTB in Bauchi yesterday. According to him, the ongoing database consolidation of the JTB, an initiative being executed in collaboration with the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS), a national taxpayer database with the data …

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Against the multiplicity of tax regime in the domestic economy, speakers at the 8th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series have charged the Federal Government on the need to ensure an inclusive, simplified and automated tax regime in the country. The lead speaker, Adebimpe Balogun, who was the first female president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), …

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