AdminNov 28, 20161 min readNigerians to show evidence of tax payment before they get international passports – FIRSExecutive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, has said that Nigerians might begin to show...
AdminNov 10, 20162 min readSenate rejects 2016 FIRS budgetThe Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted against the report of its committee on Finance, on the budget of the Federal Inland Revenue...
AdminNov 3, 20161 min readFIRS recruitment: 700,000 applied for 500 jobsThe Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Tunde Fowler, has disclosed that the agency received more than 700,000 applications....
AdminJul 24, 20162 min readCustoms, FIRS, DPR got N142bn as incentives in one year of Buhari’s administrationThis is the cost of the revenue collected by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the...
AdminJul 14, 20161 min readFIRS seals Cetco Oilfield, Aquashield Oil over tax evasionThe Federal Inland Revenue Service on Wednesday stepped up its tax enforcement efforts, sealing off two oil services companies in Port...
AdminMay 19, 20161 min readTax Appeal Tribunal orders JIB, micro-finance bank to pay FIRS N29.3millionThe aforementioned companies were ordered to pay the stated sum having been found guilty of tax evasion by the Tribunal. Out of the total...
AdminMay 13, 20162 min readFIRS seals Jimoh Ibrahim’s NICON Luxury Hotel, NICON Insurance over unpaid taxesThe two companies, NICON Luxury Hotel and NICON Insurance were among others sealed in Lagos, Abuja, Owerri and Kaduna on Thursday. FIRS...
AdminApr 12, 20161 min readWe will make N4.9trn for Nigeria in 2016 – FIRSChairman of FIRS, Mr Tunde Fowler, disclosed this on Monday at the opening of the 134th Joint Tax Board meeting in Kano. He assured that...
AdminApr 11, 20161 min readEmir Sanusi urges FIRS to resolve multiple taxationSanusi made the call when the FIRS Chairman, Mr Tunde Fowler, paid him a courtesy call at his palace on Monday in Kano. The Emir said...
AdminApr 7, 20162 min readFIRS, Customs now Nigeria’s stable source of revenue – Hameed AliThe NCS boss, who was on a two-day working tour of Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Service, visited the border formations at Saki. Ali,...
AdminFeb 3, 20162 min readFIRS eyes N5trn revenue for 2016Its Executive Chairman, Mr Tunde Fowler, announced the projection at the opening ceremony of the FIRS 2016 Corporate Strategy Retreat...
AdminJan 29, 20161 min readEFCC arrests FIRS Director, Joseph Osagie after sting operation​The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Abumere Joseph Osagie, deputy director, regional tax office, Federal...
AdminNov 4, 20151 min read44 companies sue FIRS over N1.1bn excess stamp dutiesThe companies alleged that they were made to pay the excess stamp duties on their respective statements of increase in their share...
AdminSep 29, 20152 min readLawyer asks court to nullify Buhari’s appointments into FIRS, AMCONAn Abuja based legal practitioner, Mr. Maduakolam Igwe, in a suit yesterday marked FHC/ABJ/CS/770/2015, prayed the court to void the...
AdminSep 14, 20152 min readWhy we are hiring consultants for tax administration – FIRS chairman, Tunde FowlerFowler, who made this known at a meeting of the Joint Tax Board, JTB, in Abuja, yesterday, clarified that he would not use consultants to...
AdminSep 6, 20151 min readFIRS to audit all companies operating in Nigeria within 30 daysA statement from the FIRS signed by the Director, Communications and Servicom Department, Mr. Emmanuel Obeta, said the decision to carry...
AdminDec 21, 20142 min readOndo: FIRS arrests eight management staff for tax evasionIt listed the offences of the companies to include the refusal of the companies to register for VAT, failure to file returns for VAT and...
