Kogi records N23.5bn annual IGR

The internally generated revenue in Kogi State has moved  from the former N6.5bn figure to N23.5bn per annum.

The Executive Chairman of Kogi Inland Revenue Service, Salihu Sule Enehe, stated this during the 2024 stakeholders’ interactive session organised by the revenue body  in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.

According to him, “the revenue generation of the state as at 2015 was pegged at N6.5bn, but due to the commitments and reforms introduced into tax collections, the revenue tremendously improved to N23.5 per annum.”

The Executive Chairman noted that the state government in the last eight years had deployed tax payers’ money in providing  infrastructure, quality education, health , agriculture among others, thus appealing to tax payers in the state to endeavor to pay their taxes as at and when due to enable the government achieve more for the people.

The Director in charge of MDAs and Other Revenues, Dr Olubunmi Ajayi, during his presentation on the “Continuous Stakeholders’ Engagement For Effective Tax Administration,” urged tax payers not to pay cash to revenue officials.

He stated that the instruction was to  eradicate all forms of illegality within the system,  adding that the service had a simplified process of tax payment through the banks, PoS, and other means.

Ajayi stressed, “Our taxpayers remain our valued assets in generating the necessary funds for social and economic development of the state, as they perform their civic responsibility in paying their tax obligations,” he stated

The stakeholders’ interactive session was attended by business class, property owners, the Civil Society Organisations, school proprietors, government functionaries, religious and community leaders, and petty traders.