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FIRS Jobs: Only 2% of Applicants Make Final List

With its financial autonomous and improved conditions of service for the staff, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has become a hot destination for job seekers in Nigeria. The Economic Confidential gathered that only two percent of over 100,000 applicants are successful in a recent...

Re: ‘Senators, Ministers Hijack 524 Jobs in FIRS’: Facts

The attention of the Board and Management of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS has been drawn to the publication ‘Senators, ministers hijack 524 jobs in FIRS’ by The Saturday Punch, August 28 2010 on pages 1 and 2. This publication is untrue and...

FIRS to Sanction Tax Defaulters as Unremitted taxes hit N200bn –Imoigui

The chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) who doubles as the boss of Joint Tax Board (JTB), Mrs Ifueko Imigui Okauru has vowed that tax defaulters would henceforth be sanctioned to serve as deterrent for others just as unremitted taxes of agencies reach...

Nigerians Enjoy lowest VAT rate –FIRS boss

The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru has said that Nigeria is the only country where Value Added Tax (VAT) is lowest at five percent. According to her the five percent VAT operational in the...

Chairmen and Membership of Tax Tribunals in Nigeria

    Abuja  Justice Oseni Oyewo                               = Chairman Barr. Zulaihat Yusuf Aboki                        = Commissioner Abbas Muhammad Gumel                         = Commissioner Mr. Nnamdi Ibegbu                                 = Commissioner S.A.N.,Barr. Jude Rex-Ogbuku                 = Commissioner   Lagos...

FG Establishes Tax tribunals

The Finance Minister, Dr. Mansur Muhtar has inaugurated eight tax administrative tribunals to handle tax dispute in the country. The tribunals are to be situated in the six geopolitical zones of the federation and one each in former capital of Nigeria Lagos and the...