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Tunde Fowler

Human right lawyers may sue FIRS over plans to freeze tax defaulters’ accounts

There are strong indications that should the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) put paid to its recent threat to freeze accounts of tax defaulters, a set of Human Rights lawyers may approach a court of competent jurisdiction to challenge the…

FIRS generates N3.30trn revenue, explains why 2016 budget was in reds

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has not only revealed that it collected N3.30 trillion revenue from taxes in 2016, but opened up on why the year’s budget was enmeshed in deficit. Speaking on the last day of a three-day…