Plateau State generates IGR of N17 billion in 9 months

The Plateau state government has announced that it generated internal revenue of N17 billion from January to September 2021.

This was disclosed by Mr Arlat Dasogot, Chairman, Plateau State Internal Revenue Service (PSIRS) at the state’s revenue council whistleblowing sub-committee stakeholder engagement on Monday, in Jos, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.

The revenue boss stated that despite revenue targets being at least N2 billion monthly, the state was only able to realise over a billion per month, except for June and August that was lower than a billion, citing that Plateau revenue law enacted in November 2020, would significantly boost the state’s IGR.

What the state revenue boss said

Mr Dasogot said, “Efforts to implement the law fully has been on, we have been working with our partners comprising mostly professionals.

“We are implementing the law together with Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs) and we are witnessing improvements in revenues the MDA have been collecting.

“Prior to the law, the MDAs were not fully accounting for the revenues they were collecting, but with the law, they know that they must account for the revenues they collect.

“We are making progress but we are not yet there, but we are not losing hope.”

He said that the whistleblowing would help PSIRS to redefine its compass, adding that where leakages were identified, the whistleblowing should report them so that they would be taken to the revenue council to address.

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