Edo State Internal Revenue Service (EIRS) has updated its counterpart, Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS) and its Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), on digital methods for collection of internally generated revenue (IGR).
Speaking through his representative, Mrs. Sadiat Abu, Director, Large Tax Payers, Executive Chairman, EIRS, Igbinidu Inneh, updated its visitors on how their state could collaborate with its local government councils to increase internally generated revenue through digital use of scratch cards, with a practical process of its workability/relevant extant laws to back up its procedure and workability.
At the end of exchanged knowledge, Olubunmi Ajayi, representative of the Executive Chairman, Kogi IRS, Aliyu Nda Salami, stated that they came to better understand how the synergy between the revenue service and local governments could bring improvement in internally generated revenue for the development of the state. He stated that they had been put through the whole process, through which they gained from the experience.
ALGON Chairman, Kogi State, Alhaji Taofik Isah represented by Hon. Tanko Musa, said the IGR system in Edo State was excellent hence they were in the state to interact and learn how it works for the Edo State template was workable in the area of transport, market women and in all areas of taxation. Critical stakeholders he observed were harmonized and brought together which erased double taxation, making the process to work smoothly. He said Kogi State would deliver, on same.