Ugar Ukandi Odey, Jos
Plateau State Government netted N7, 046, 895, 357.27 as internally generated revenue for the third quarter of 2020 fiscal year that spanned from July to September.
Presenting the second and third quarter report of the Plateau State Internal Revenue Service, the Chairman of the Service, Dashe Arlat, said the revenue for the second quarter stood at N2, 196, 735, 606.11, a sharp drop from the first quarter figure of N7, 203, 329,641. 61 as a result of the closure of businesses as a result of the lockdown to check the spread of the covid-19 pandemic
According to the Chairman, “the PSIRS devised it’s strategies and poised itself to meet and even surpass it’s 2020 target of N16 billion. In addition to strengthening and intensifying productive strategies deployed in 2019, PSIRS adopted more strategies”.
Some of these strategies, he maintained, ranged from enhanced data collection to aggressive pursuit of tax defaulters, aggressive drive in the informal sector, and combing all discernible business districts to capture all taxable outfits.
The Chairman stated that, in view of the pangs of the pandemic on businesses, “the Service quickly introduced palliative tax relief measures to help mitigate the adverse effects oxf the covid-19 on Plateau businesses”.
He said some of the measures included extension of time lines to fill annual returns, waiver of penalties and interests, to suspension of enforcement of outstanding tax liabilities.
