FEDERAL Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has realised N23 billion from its closer look at the books of over 45,000 tax defaulters, each of which had over N100 million as turnover in their accounts. FIRS Executive Chairman, Tunde Fowler, therefore, said the Service, in collaboration with other stakeholders like the Nigeria Police Force, will continue to go after wealthy tax defaulters in 2019. He requested the Nigeria Police to help the Service bring the tax defaulters to pay their taxes. “Let me put on record that the Nigeria Police Force has been extremely helpful to FIRS. The FIRS collected a total of N5.320 trillion of tax revenue.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 07, 2019 18:33 UTC