The Senate on Thursday faulted the proposed plan by the Inland Revenue Service of the Federal Capital Territory to remit N1bn out of its projected N100bn revenue target in 2021 to the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
The Executive Chairman of the FCT-IRS, Mallam Abdullahi Attah, had appeared before the Senate Committee on the FCT for the approval of the agency’s N8.5bn 2021 budget proposal. The agency had on Tuesday appeared before the committee headed by Senator Abubakar Kyari, for the same purpose.
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The IRS-FCT team, was, however, told to return on Thursday to clarify alleged discrepancies in the budgetary proposals it submitted.
During the committee’s sitting on Thursday, the chairman of the panel asked Attah to explain the N1bn planned remittance to FIRS from the agency’s projected revenue generation in 2021.
The FCT-IRS Chairman told the panel that the planned remittance was being done on yearly basis.
“Out of the entire 130 officials of the agency, 117 of them are from the FIRS who must be taken care of,” he said.
Obviously not satisfied by the submission, the committee chairman wondered why the agency, since its creation about four years ago, had not recruited enough workers to drive its revenue collection.
Other members of the committee, including senators Sani Musa, Sam Egwu, Smart Adeyemi, and Tolu Odebiyi, described the FCT-IRS practice as unacceptable.
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The panel chairman told the FCT-IRS boss and his team to take their leave while their proposals would be thoroughly looked into.
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