Kogi IGR increases to N23.5bn

Kogi State government has said its internal revenue generation (IGR) has increased from N6.5 billion to N23.5 billion annually in eight years.  

The executive chairman of the Kogi State  Board of Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS), Alhaji Salihu Enehe, disclosed this in Lokoja Tuesday during the 2024 stakeholders’ interactive session on taxation.

The KGIRS chairman said the increase in the state IGR was due to the concerted efforts of the state government, tax managers and the introduction of various policies which frustrated various leakages in the past.

He said the agency moved from manual to digital application of tax administration, which eliminated illegal tax collection activities, with many of the perpetrators arrested and facing prosecution.

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He said: “ We  survived because the stakeholders are there for us, your survival is our survival . And your survival is state survival.”  However, many of the stakeholders complained of multiple, or double and high rates of taxation arising from the gloomy economic situation affecting their businesses’ employees.

Private school operators appealed for a review of levies being charged in schools, saying the pupil and student intake has been reduced drastically in most schools due to the biting economic situation.