Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) has said Governor Uba Sani’s policy of financial inclusion, widening the tax net, and reorganising the entire system ranked Kaduna as the subnational with the highest revenue generation in the North.
The executive chairman of KADIRS, Jerry Adams at the weekend said that it was not surprising that Kaduna State was ranked as the subnational with the highest revenue generation in 2023 by the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS).
Last week, NBS released the Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) of all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), showing that Kaduna State raked in N62.49 billion last year, emerging the state with the highest IGR earnings in the north.
However, KADIRS boss said that the credit goes to Governor Sani for automating tax administration in Kaduna State and providing work tools to drive the process.
Adams also pointed out that the Governor Sani administration has widened the tax net without increasing tax in the state.
He further disclosed that KADIRS has been expanding the tax net in a horizontal manner since July last year, as against the vertical approach of the past which led to stagnation.
Adams added that “KADIRS now has a One-Stop-Tax portal called ‘Pay Kaduna Portal’ which enables citizens to pay their taxes from anywhere, without physically coming to the tax agency’s offices.”
‘’This automation has reduced leakages in the system. By just clicking on the particular tax icon, a tax payer can pay Withholding Tax, Stamp Duty Tax and so on,’’ Adams said.
KADIRS boss maintained that the overall policies of Kaduna State Government helped significantly improve its IGR.
