Muktar Ahmed, the Executive Chairman of KDIRS, told the News Agency of
Nigeria on Thursday in Kaduna that workers constituted the largest contributors
followed by Kaduna State Geographic Information Service.
Mr. Ahmed identified other sources to include hospital bills and school
fees.
He said that the state had three to four million potential tax payers,
but expressed regret that only about 400,000 were in the KDIRS revenue net.
Mr. Ahmed said that efforts were being made to bring all eligible tax
payers into the tax net to boost the state revenue generation and provide
better services to the people.
He, however, acknowledged that the N9.6 billion IGR was significantly
short of the N27 billion expected to have been generated in the first half of
the year to meet the N54 billion targeted this year.
“We were actually hoping to generate about N11 billion in the sale of
government properties which would have boosted our revenue to N22 billion in
the first six months.
“But the process is ongoing and we are hoping that it will soon pull
through.
“Another revenue line that we have not fully tapped is the land use
charge that every real property owner in the state will pay.
“The state executive council has approved the land use charge rates for
2017 which is N10, 000 for people with real properties in Government Reserved
Areas (GRAs) and N1000 for those in suburb areas.
“I am optimistic that by the time we start collecting the land use
charges, our revenue generation will significantly improve,” he said.
The chairman said that local government areas remained major challenge in
revenue collection for KDIRS as their officials were still collecting cash in
local government areas.
“In the process, tax payers are short-changed. We will not allow that to
continue. We have sent out intelligence to fish out those involved.
“Already, seven officials including VIO officials in our motor vehicle
registration offices have been arrested and charged to court for forgery of
vehicle documents and criminal conspiracy.
“I assure you, we will soon clean KDIRS of bad eggs and block all
leakages so that the government will get its due revenue,” he said.
Ahmed thanked tax payers in the state for the cooperation so far and
appeal for more support to move the state forward.
(NAN)
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