JIRS Chairman vows to address challenges in tax collection in Jigawa

From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse

The newly appointed chairman of Jigawa state Internal Revenue Service Alhaji Nasir Sabo Idris has promised to do all his best to address challenges that hindered the generation of internally generated revenue in the state.
The chairman made the promise during the dialogue between tax payers, tax collectors and other state and non state actors.
He explained that, during the dialogue alot of challenges related to generation of internally generated revenue in the state were identified.
According to him, after his assumption of office as new chairman JIRS, he discovered that the major challenges is related to shortage of manpower which resulted to low mobilization of domestic resources.
He maintained that, other challenges include, leakages in revenue collection process, lack of additional revenue sources, and lack of effective tax awareness in the state.