The Director of Personal Income at Kano Internal Revenue Service (KIRS), Malam Muhammad Aminu Abdullahi Bichi, has blamed the drop in the Internally Generated Revenue in the state from 2020 to 2021 on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The director stated this during a Tax Summit – Citizens Session organised by PERL FCDO in collaboration with Tax Justice and Governance Platform held in Kano, recalling that the pandemic has affected not only the country but the global economy.
The director explained that this necessitated the state government to introduce COVID-19 tax relief to cushion the effect of the pandemic.
According to him, many taxes were reduced to as low as 50 per cent to support businesses to recover from the impact of the disease.
The director expressed optimism that with the introduction of the Treasury Single Account, the state revenue would bounce back to its former status.
Recall that the Kano State House of Assembly had recently recommended the sacking of the KIRS boss due to the drop in the state internal revenue and insubordination to the house.
