The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) has commenced campaign to inculcate tax paying culture on individuals and organisations in the FCT.
The acting Chairman of FCT-IRS, Haruna Abdullahi, who led a road show yesterday to kick off the campaign, said awareness creation was one of the strategies the service had adopted to meet its over N200bn tax target this year.
Abdullahi said the service was adopting several measures to change peoples’ negative attitude towards tax paying, noting that the sensitisation campaign for improving tax would be intensified, warning that the service might resort to extant laws to prosecute defaulters.
He reminded individuals and organisations that it was an offence if they failed in filing tax returns promptly.
City News reports that the FCT was second to Lagos State in the amount generated internally in 2021; ahead of the oil-rich states like Rivers.
