FIRS budgets N160m for drivers’ uniforms, N825m for refreshment

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has budgeted N160
million for sewing of uniforms for its drivers.

The service also budgeted N825 million for refreshment and N250
million for security vote.

While defending the budget before a joint committee of the
national assembly on Monday, Babatunde Fowler, chairman of the
agency, said the N160 million was earmarked to sew the uniforms of
the 850 drivers in the service.

Fowler said this is part of the efforts to make them fit
properly into the structure.

The committee had said the cost was outrageous but the FIRS
chairman justified it, saying security vote, for instance, was
meant to attend to some “security issues.”

“The achievement of 2019 budget will be driven by increase oil
and non-oil revenue tax collection,” he said.

“The service in realisation of this responsibility and
challenges of doing manual collection will continue to implement
automated tax collection for the critical sectors of the economy
notably telecommunications, airlines and financial
institutions.

“The deployment of these platforms is at no cost to the service
and the consultants will only be rewarded on increased revenue
generation.

“There will be increased enforcement activities nationwide to
bring more tax payers into the tax net and increase compliance
level.”

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