The Plateau Internal Revenue Service reports that Internally Generated Revenue totalled more than N3.3 billion in January.
Chairman of PIRS, Dr Jim Wayas, stated this in an interview with journalists on Monday in Jos.
Wayas stated that this performance was targeted at attaining the service’s target of N52 billion by 2025.
The Chairman said in spite of the tough economic realities, PIRS had adopted some friendly measures towards improving the IGR of the state.
He said “We know that the economic situation is not too good; people are struggling. Economic activities are not booming as they should, but the idea is that we are not strangulating businesses to fund government activity or businesses.
“What we are doing is to also encourage business. For the nano businesses, we are not even saying come and pay by all means, because we know they are trying to survive.
“As I will always say, we are not taxing the seed, that is the capital, but we are taxing the income you make out of the capital,” he explained.
The PIRS Chairman, who said that the government was bridging the infrastructure deficit in the state, called on the residents to pay their taxes regularly for better service delivery.
