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Why Senate Wants FIRS to Suspend N17tn Tax Waivers

by Techeconomy
February 20, 2024
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Zacch Adedeji, FIRS and Tax Waivers
Zacch Adedeji, chairman of FIRS

Zacch Adedeji, chairman of FIRS

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The Senate has frowned at the N17tn loss incurred by the country on tax waivers within the last five years.

The upper legislative chamber through its Committee on Finance on Monday, consequently, urged the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to suspend the tax waivers being largely abused and substitute it with a rebating system.

The Senate’s objection to the allegedly abused tax waivers came to the fore during the 2024 budget presentation of FIRS to its committee on Finance.

Also, Zacch Adedeji, the chairman of FIRS, who made projection of N19.4tn as targeted total tax collection for 2024, insisted that the fresh N2.7tn Tax Credit planned for road construction in the country by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), should be stopped.

In his remarks at the budget presentation session, Senator Sani Musa, the chairman of the committee, told the FIRS Chairman that tax waivers abuse which has cost the country about N17tn loss within the last five years should be suspended and substituted with rebating system.

He said,

“Your projection of N19tn as total tax collection for 2024 is good when compared to N11.16tn achieved in 2023 but the senate believes that you can do more even to the tune of N30tn if required measures are put in place.

“As impressive and encouraging the performance and projections of FIRS are ,  under your leadership , this committee and by extension ,  the Senate , on a serious note , urge you to look at the direction of tax waivers largely being abused with attendant and avoidable losses being incurred  on yearly basis . Available records show that within the last five years, about N17tn have been lost by the country to tax waivers. It should be suspended and possibly substituted with a rebating system.”

The FIRS chairman, in his presentation, informed the committee that to save Nigerians from multiple taxation, FIRS in collaboration with a committee set up by the President Bola Tinubu, would reduce the 62 different taxes to 8.

He noted, “President Bola Tinubu has seen the issue of multiple taxation as a pool of problems. That is why he set up the presidential committee on tax reforms and fiscal policy. As of today in Nigeria, we have 62 types of taxes being collected. The sad news about that is that less than eight out of the entire 62, accounted for 97 per cent of the collection.

“We are already consulting and engaging the state government on it. At the end of the day, we won’t have more than eight or nine taxes that the state and federal government would be collecting.”

The PUNCH reported that on controversy concerning the implementation of the Tax Credit Scheme for road construction by the CBN, the FIRS boss insisted that the N2.5tn earlier committed to it, must be fully implemented before thinking of any fresh one.

He said, “Regarding tax credit, what I said was that the programme is laudable but that the N2.5trn being spent on it by NNPCL should be exhausted before bringing a fresh request.

“N2.7tn fresh request being made should not be entertained because all NNPC revenue should not be spent on roads when the Ministry of Works is there.”

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