NEITI asks FIRS to recover $20bn from firms
By Eyo Nsima
“We recall the FIRS was on our board when Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru was here and it was through the instruments of our reports that she did a lot of reforms which in the last years that you came, you have taken to a very far digital age.
“You have brought a lot of technology into it and then reduce human interference in the work you do. We are very proud of the job you have done. When you reel out the figures that the FIRS has recovered most times they give targets and you meet the targets, we think you can do more if we bring the NEITI/EITI principles into what you do in terms of openness, transparency, and accountability that are already in-built in the technology that is now driving tax reports”.
He said, “FIRS has created a full department named intelligence strategic data mining and analysis department to mine and warehouse data on taxpayers for the service.
“We, therefore, request for your support to build up our database by sharing with the FIRS data obtained from other stakeholders such as NNPC, DPR, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, oil and gas companies, and solid minerals players, from past and future annual NEITI audit exercise”.
