Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) has disclosed that it collected N58.09 billion as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2022. The agency attributed the success to the legal and institutional reforms undertaken by the government since 2015.
In a statement issued by the executive chairman of KADIRS, Zaid Abubakar, it said the media reports citing IGR collection figure for 2022 that was different from N58.09 billion did not emanate from any authorised agency of the state and should be disregarded.
“These efforts have been remarkably successful, quadrupling the IGR from less than N13bn in 2015 to N52.85 billion in 2021 and rising to N58.09 billion in 2022. These unprecedented levels of IGR collection have been a notable feature of the El-Rufai years in Kaduna State.
“KDSG accomplishments in vastly increasing its IGR has further convinced the government that it can still improve its revenue generation, but this is a work in progress. The State Government, under the leadership of Malam Nasir El-Rufai, is proud of what it has already achieved, and it has no need to massage what are clearly impressive results, and which represent a clear outcome of the hard work of its officials and agencies,” Abubakar stated.
He bragged that Kaduna State is now rightly acknowledged as one of the top IGR states even though the IGR for the year is still far below expectation. “It has maintained a steady trajectory of growth in its IGR: N44.96 billion in 2019, N50.77 billion in 2020, N52.85 billion in 2021 and N58.09 billion in 2022. These remarkable strides owe much to the legal and institutional reforms undertaken since 2015 to strengthen the ability to collect revenues and to block leakages.
“The Tax Codification and Consolidation Law enacted by the El-Rufai government appoints the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) as the sole collector of government revenues, outlines all the taxes and levies payable in the state and prohibits the cash collection of revenue by any public officer,” he said.
