…certificate available on a click
Taxpayers in Nigeria will no longer have to go through a lot of stress to get their tax clearance certificate as the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has simplified the process.
The FIRS said taxpayers can now access the certificate by just a single click via its flagship Taxpro Max solution.
The TaxPro Max, a tax administration solution introduced by FIRS in June 2021, is a one-stop-shop for taxpayer registration, tax returns filing, tax payment, tax clearance certificate requesting, among others.
With this, the generation of tax clearance certificates, which used to take up to two weeks, will now be possible on a single click by the taxpayer.
This innovation is coming on the heels of wide-scale technological reforms embarked on by the service in its bid to achieve 100 percent automation of its tax administration functions.
Commenting on the development, chairman of FIRS, Mr Muhammad Nami, explained that the functionality was in line with the objectives of the service to make the lives of taxpayers easier and ensure the ease of doing business in the country.
“One of our objectives as a Service is to build a customer-ventric institution. That means an institution that has the customer at the heart of its innovations and solutions,” Nami said.
“It is for this reason that we have tuned the operations of our TaxPro Max solution to be able to deliver tax clearance certificates in the shortest possible time to taxpayers. At the click of a button, a taxpayer will get their Tax Clearance Certificates, as long as they have no outstanding liabilities. This would impact in no small measure on the Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria,” he stated.
The FIRS boss noted that this innovation was aimed at appreciating taxpayers for their trust and contributions to national development, stating that the Service would continue to come up with innovative solutions that would make the taxpayers’ life easier.
He urged all taxpayers in the country to continue to trust the government to serve their interests, as the taxes paid by them directly and indirectly are what government at the three tiers continue to use to fund social amenities, secure lives and property of the citizenry, and provide critical national infrastructures including schools, hospitals, roads, among others.
He implored governments at all levels to continue to give taxpayers value for their money.
