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FIRS withheld N300bn in 3yrs as cost of collecting taxes
The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, made a whooping N300.4 billion in three years, between 2016 and 2018 as the cost of collecting taxes.
According to the law setting up the revenue collection agency, FIRS is allowed to deduct four percent as cost of revenue collection from non oil taxes before remitting the remaining to the Federation Account.
According to data from the FIRS, a breakdown of the N300.4 billion cost of revenue collection by the FIRS showed that N85.99 billionwas received in 2016, which is about 2.6 per cent of the total actual taxes of N3.30 billion collected in 2016.
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In 2017, the FIRS received N100.3 billion as the cost of revenue collection out of the N4.02 trillion it generated, while in 2018 fiscal year, the service got N114.1 billion as the cost of revenue collection out of the N5.32 trillion revenue it generated for that year.
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