The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) plans to spend a total of 1.24 billion naira on uniforms for its drivers, security votes and entertainment in the course of 2019 fiscal year, its chairman has disclosed.
Babatunde Fowler said the amount earmarked for uniforms for the service's drivers was part of efforts to make them fit properly into the structure.
He also disclosed that FIRS will be spending 825 million naira for refreshment in the 2019 fiscal year.
He spoke while defending the service budget before the National Assembly joint committee, which quarried the drop in the projected non-oil revenue tax collection for the year.
The committee had raised concern over the 4.75 percent drop in the estimate of non-oil revenue to be collected by the service this year.Fowler said the amount earmarked for security vote was meant to attend to some security issues, particularly those not receipted for.
“The achievement of 2019 budget will be driven by increase oil and non-oil revenue tax collection. “The service in realisation of this responsibility and challenges of doing manual collection will continue to implement automated tax collection for the critical sectors of the economy notably telecommunications, airlines, and financial institutions.
“The deployment of these platforms is at no cost to the service and the consultants will only be rewarded on increased revenue generation.
“There will be increased enforcement activities nationwide to bring more taxpayers into the tax net and increase compliance level,’’ Fowler said.
The joint committee of the National Assembly has raised issues on personnel cost proposed for 2019 by FIRS in its budget.
The committee asked why the service was proposing 14.6 percent increase in number of staff from 7, 854 in 2018 to 9,000 staff in 2019.
Fowler said the proposed increase in staff strength was due to recruitment of staff scheduled in 2019.
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