By Rashidat Aminu
The Federal Inland Revenue Service on Wednesday said it has raked in over N650 billion in June 2021 into federal government’s coffer, the highest revenue realized in a single month since the COVID-19 pandemic started and the assumption of office of the current management.
The Director, Communications and Liaison Department, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Dr. Abdullahi Ahmad, quoted his boss via statement he made available to the media in Abuja.
He stated that: “This feat was achieved as a result of the efficiency and effectiveness of the TaxProMax Solution, notwithstanding the challenges and resistance faced in the early stages of its adoption, and the downturn orchestrated by slow economic recovery.”
Nami, who was excited at the performance recalled that as part of its efforts at modernizing tax administration in the country, the FIRS recently introduced the Tax Administration Solution (TaxProMax) for ease of tax compliance.
According to him, the solution “enables seamless registration, filing, payment of taxes and automatic credit of withholding tax as well as other credits to the Taxpayer’s accounts, among other features. It also provides a single-view to Taxpayers for all transactions with the Service”
The TaxProMax platform, which took off on 7th June 2021, is a channel for filing Naira-denominated tax returns in the country. The TaxProMax platform is accessible at www.taxpromax.firs.gov.ng.
Nami reminded taxpayers of the one-off one-month extension granted earlier this month for the filing of Company Income Tax returns by taxpayers with December 31, 2020 accounting year-end whose statutory tax returns were due not later than 30th June 2021.
He urged them to take advantage of the extension as it “provides an opportunity to all taxpayers whose company income tax returns were due in June 2021 to file up to the 31st July 2021”