‘We’re concerned about your business, not just tax collection’ – EKIRS Chairman

The Chairman of the Ekiti State Internal Revenue Service, EKIRS, Mr Olaniran Olatona, has assured concern owners that the bureau is committed to helping enterprises turn alternatively than burdening them with excessive taxation, saying a thriving concern assemblage remains cardinal to the state’s gross growth.
Speaking during a media engagement with journalists successful Ado-Ekiti, Olatona said EKIRS has shifted its absorption from assertive enforcement to payer education, dialogue, and voluntary compliance, stressing that the bureau understands businesses cannot wage taxes if they fail.

“If businesses don’t grow, we won’t beryllium capable to turn our revenue. That is wherefore we are acrophobic astir your businesses. We privation them to survive, expand, and prosper due to the fact that that is the lone sustainable mode authorities gross tin grow,” helium said.

The EKIRS brag explained that alternatively of relying connected store closures and roadblocks, the bureau present visits businesses, markets, universities, and nonrecreational groups to amended taxpayers connected their obligations and promote compliance done engagement alternatively than intimidation.

He disclosed that the work besides plans to organise seminars for traders a...