PSIRS Sets To Improve On State’s IGR In 2018
The Oasis Reporters
January 28, 2018
By Moses Gbande
The Plateau State Executive Chairman of Internal Revenue Service, (PSIRS), Mr Dashe Arlat has said that the service is planning to improve on the internally generated revenue for the State .
Arlat made this disclosure while briefing newsmen at the Plateau state Internal Revenue Service Office on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 to usher in the 2018 fiscal year .
He promised to intensify an aggressive revenue drive, even as he said that the service has blocked all revenue leakages to meet up with the target to facilitate the provision of social responsibilities, and called on tax payers to voluntarily pay their taxes.
While stressing that the service’s target is to generate N21 billion in the 2018 budget, the chairman maintained that, “the performance by government of it’s core responsibility to serve and advance the welfare and well-being of citizens, is usually dependent on the quantum of available resources”, adding that the sources are harnessed through a combination of methods.
“We shall pursue and upscale thorough monitoring of demand and ensure strict compliance by all MDAs in Plateau state, to the government approved automation process of assessment, involving , collection/payment and receipting these government approved processes which are aimed to checking, identifying and eliminating wastages, leakages and omissions that lead to loss of revenue across board”, he explained.
According to him, we shall intensify the sensitization campaign across the 17 local government areas as we are determined to cover the entire state and will use different forms of communication in a strategic fashion, so as to educate and mobilize taxpayers on tax matters.
Arlat cautioned that the management and staff of PSIRS have designed, taken ownership of and resolute implementation of sustainability for 2018 and beyond.
The plan is comprised of 7 key result areas and 18 action plans which have drawn useful performance templates.
Dashe stressed further that government shall therefore robustly explore all options and mechanism that will allow such entities and or individual for fiscal sustainability plan of the federal government of Nigeria and the state transparency and accountability, sustainability program by the World Bank .
The statutory task of identification, generation and collection of all taxes, rates, charges levied fines and or fees across Plateau state is the direct purview of Plateau State Internal Revenue Service.
