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FCT. photo: EDUCATIONFAIRThe Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service, (FCT-IRS) has engaged 165 consultants to audit six years’ back duty taxes of Ministries Departments and Agencies(MDAs), enterprises and corporate organisations.
The Executive Chairman of FCT-IRS, Mr Abdulahi Attah, disclosed this while speaking on some innovations the agency had put in place to improve the system of tax administration in the territory on Monday in Abuja. x
Attah, who said that the consultants were employed with the approval of Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), added that the years of back duty taxes would be between 2015 and 2020.
According to him, the law requires taxable persons and organisations to file their annual returns on or before the end of March.
While speaking with NAN in Abuja on Sunday, Abdullahi Attah, Executive Chairman of the service, said, “Abuja is a big city, very modest city and expensive to maintain, the only way we can continue to keep Abuja of our dream is through taxation, so that we can be like Singapore and Dubai of this world.”
He gave March 31 as deadline for all taxpayers in the city to file their annual tax returns.
Attah said the law requires every taxable individual to file a tax return within 90 days after the end of the financial year.
“We have concluded arrangement to send Short Message Service (SMS) to all taxpayers in our data base asking them to file their annual tax return.
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