The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has announced that it will embark on a nationwide Value Added Tax (VAT) and Withholding Tax (WHT) compliance exercise from July 2022.
This information was included in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday and signed by the FIRS Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami.
The monitoring exercise will involve teams of FIRS officers visiting selected taxpayers and taxable persons to review their VAT and Withholding Tax records.
According to the statement, “the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) shall embark on a nationwide VAT and WHT compliance monitoring exercise with effect from July 1, 2022.
“As a result, teams of officers from the Service shall visit selected taxpayers, taxable persons (including companies, NGOs or MDAs) to review their VAT and WHT records.”
Mr. Muhammad Nami also highlighted that the exercise would cover the 2016 to 2020 accounting years for taxable persons whose records have been audited by the Service up to the 2015 accounting year.
The service also called on all taxable persons and tax agents to immediately remit deductions of VAT and Withholding Tax they have made on its behalf.
“All taxable persons or tax agents who have made deductions of VAT or WHT on behalf of the Service are required to immediately remit all such deductions to the FIRS within two weeks of this publication.”
