Tag: Babatunde fowler

Mr Fowler was at the commission's office in Lagos on Monday.

This is not the first time Mr Nami is criticising the administration of his predecessor, Babatunde Fowler.

Nigeria slipped two points to 159 from 157 in its Ease of Paying Taxes.

He also made reference to 2012, three years before Mr Fowler's appointment, as the best year for the FIRS.

The president also orders a recomposition of the revenue agency’s board of directors.

Mr Fowler says the liabilities covered the period between 2002 and 2016.

Mr Fayemi also wants the government to revisit the Stephen Oronsaye report.

The FIRS boss says the figure will result from the expansion of tax base from 10 million taxpayers.

The lawyer asked for an order barring Mr Fowler from further parading himself as the chairman of FIRS unless he ...

"FIRS in collaboration with the banks has started engaging in compliance measures with regard to the tax defaulters and their ...

The president said he "observed significant variances between the budgeted collections and actual collections for the period 2015 to 2018."

FIRS says it hopes to generate between N750 billion and N1 trillion from the clampdown on those who failed to ...

The amount is N330 billion or 28 per cent higher than the N1.17 trillion reported by FIRS in the same ...

The top FIRS officials, detained by the anti-graft agency over allegations of fraud, were granted bail Tuesday.

The FIRS officials are being detained by the EFCC in Abuja.

FIRS hopes to recover about N750bn from about 55,000 defaulting millionaire taxpayers.

The group says there should be more individual and corporate entities captured in the tax net paying VAT.

The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, had said the arrangement was unacceptable.

The figure of the taxpayers comprised both individuals and corporate bodies.

The FIRS boss says the use of technology has increased the country’s tax revenue base by 800,000 corporate accounts.

Mr Fowler lambasts businesses who collect VAT but fail to remit to government coffers.

The government is trying to ratify an automatic exchange of information with other countries.

Ninety per cent of the amount was collected by the FIRS, while 10 per cent was recovered by the states.

“Payment of taxes is a fundamental requirement for our growth story.”

The agency recorded N3.3 trillion as revenue collection in 2016.