The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said it is making arrangements to adopt the National Identification Number (NIN) database to ramp up registration of taxpayers, data collection, and profiling in the country.
The Executive Chairman of FIRS, Muhammad Nami, disclosed that the agency is working with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to achieve this, to ensure all eligible taxable persons in the country were compelled to declare and pay their taxes honestly and promptly.
He noted that a lot of people were making monies privately without remitting appropriate taxes, stressing that introducing new technologies into tax administration would help to curb the challenges faced in the country.
The FIRS boss said it was important for federal and state revenue generating agencies to adopt new technologies to deliver on their core mandate.
In his opening remarks, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, urged the federal and state revenue generation agencies to come up with a new reform of modifying the consumer tax whereby people would pay a fair share of what they consume.
With the dwindling crude oil prices in the international market, he believes the future of the country no longer lies in revenue from oil.
