The acting Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service
(FIRS), Alhaji Kabir Mashi yesterday said audit tools and techniques had been
introduced to increase tax revenue collection across its field offices in the
country. He said a framework and template had already been developed to help
monitor audit activities and assignments in its drive for increase tax revenue
collection as well as boost expansion of the nation’s revenue base. Speaking in
Abuja during a one-day interactive session for Heads of Audit and supervisors
across the country, Mashi said the intention of his agency was to extend the
new audit techniques currently being deployed through the Capacity Enhancement
Programme (CEP) at the Large Tax Offices to all other offices across the
country in order to complement the audit model contained in its Integrated Tax
Administration System (ITAS). He added: "Our plan also includes
intensifying our monitoring of audit activities and to this end; we have
developed a monitoring framework and template for your tax audit assignments.
This would easily check and determine compliance level, check your risk
profiling systems, your audit time reporting system and the targets against
actual collections at the various levels. Mashi also stressed the need for
adherence to high ethical standards including internal policies, general audit
guides, proper supervision, display of high moral and ethical conducts. He
pledged that the FIRS Management would continue to provide participants and
field offices with the needed support in the areas of capacity development,
funding as well as latest audit tools.
Thisday Newspaper
No comments:
Post a Comment