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| FIRS Chairman, Babatunde Fowler |
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has revealed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) assisted it to recover N28 billion from various tax defaulters across the country.
“Through the intervention of the EFCC, the agency has been experiencing high level of tax compliance and it is yielding positive results,” Fowler said when he met with the Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him, “When tax defaulters are reported and invited to your office (EFCC), we see results; we don’t know how you do it, but we are seeing results and people are complying.”
He declared that the FIRS alone cannot curtail the activities of tax evaders without the collaboration of other national and international agencies such as the EFCC.
The FIRS boss emphasized the need to strengthen the existing collaboration and synergy between the two agencies and assured that his organization would explore all means backed by law to ensure that taxes are paid and not diverted.
According to him, if taxes are paid, funds would be available for government to provide the infrastructure needed for the socio-economic well-being of the citizenry.
Responding, Magu, assured that the commission is ready to partner any agency, organisation or individual in fighting corruption for to move the nation forward. LR News
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