Abuja, June 3, 2023: The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) in collaboration with Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) are training another batch of 200 personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is contained in statement by Mr Mustapha Sumaila<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FCT-IRS Head of Corporate Communications in Abuja on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sumaila said the training , which was focused on Tax Audit and Investigation, was conducted in line with the mandate of the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, FCT-IRS was established to ensure steady increase in revenue generation in the FCT, efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Acting Chairman FCT-IRS, Mr. Haruna Abdullahi, according to Sumaila said capacity building remained a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abdullahi said he would do everything possible to uphold it as it is one of the core objectives of the Service .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said the training could not have come at a better time, adding that efforts were geared at harmonising of all revenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He further said all would be done to centralise collection to the FCT-IRS, stressing that there was need to have skilled and equipped workforce to drive the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The acting chairman said the training will bring the total of trained personnel to 400, adding that 200 personnel were trained in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abdullahi said tax officials required technical and verbal skills to effectively audit and interact with taxpayers especially high network individuals and politically exposed persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe responsibility of the service is critical to the success of the FCT administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs such, skillful tax men are needed to rapidly grow the tax net especially now that expectations are high on revenue generating agencies,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Director, Human Capital Management and Development FCT-IRS, Mr. Umar Jada, said the service would continue to partner with professional bodies like CITN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said FCT-IRS always prioritised training and retraining of staff to improve service delivery and achieve set goals and objectives of the service.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abuja, June 3, 2023: The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) in collaboration with Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) are training another batch of 200 personnel. This is contained in statement by Mr Mustapha Sumaila FCT-IRS Head of Corporate Communications in Abuja on Sunday. Sumaila said the training , which was focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[949],"tags":[1392],"class_list":["post-51249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-fct-irs","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"\n