KADIRS rakes N14.16bn IGR in 2 months

Philip Daniel Yatai
Mar, Fri, 2025

Economy/Business

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The Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS), said it has collected N14.16 billion revenue between January and February 2025, while debunking claims of a decline in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

The KADIRS Head of Corporate Communications, Zakari Muhammad, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Friday in Kaduna.

He said the service was prompted by a recent mischief claiming a decline in the state’s IGR under the administration of Gov. Uba Sani.

Muhammad said in January and February 2025, the state had already collected an IGR of N7.47 billion and N6.69 billion respectively, making a total revenue collected to N14.16 billion in the two months.

He equally said that a validation of the reforms in the state’s revenue sector under Sani, collected an IGR of N62.48 billion and N71 billion, in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

This feat, he said, consolidated the state’s place as the leading IGR performing state in Northern Nigeria in the last two years.

Muhammad said, “The current level of IGR collection of the state, speaks to the competence of the Chairman and the management team of the service.

“We are also extolling the support we are enjoying from the state government to function as a professional and apolitical revenue authority of the state.”

The spokesperson said that the rumor circulating that the former Executive Chairman of the KADIRS was removed for calling out the state’s House of Assembly Speaker for refusing to pay taxes was baseless.

Muhammad stated that the former executive chairman served his entire four-year tenure as provided in the Kaduna State Tax Codification and Consolidation Law, after which a new Executive Chairman was appointed by the Governor.

He added that in the last two years, the state had implemented innovative revenue administration reforms.

They included the introduction of an integrated tax administration portal (PAYKADUNA), financial inclusion initiatives, enhanced taxpayers and stakeholders’ engagement.

Muhammad also said the service deployed a first-of-its-kind interactive voice response system for taxpayer complaint redressal, among other initiatives that had resulted in improved tax administration in the state.

According to him, the automation efforts of the service had ensured that a process exists for facilitating collections.

“Payments are made through the PAYKADUNA portal or via pay direct channels from which they are swept directly into the state’s Treasury Single Accounts, ensuring that staff of the service have no access or interaction with state collections.

“The IGR account is a collection and transit account not an expenditure account.

“Therefore, it is highly inaccurate to think that any amount can be withdrawn from it to service any interests.

“It is also noteworthy that the service has never received any instructions to facilitate any 100 million naira payments to any individual or organisation,” he said.

Muhammad reiterated that KADIRS was an autonomous agency of the state, insisting, “it is committed to its mandate of facilitating seamless and efficient revenue mobilisation for service delivery without fear or favour to any individual or group.” (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)

Edited by Bashir Rabe Mani

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