Adedapo Adesanya
By Adedapo Adesanya
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has introduced a new tax administration solution called TaxPro-Max to ease tax compliance in the country.
According to the Executive Chairman of the FIRS, Mr Muhammad Nami, in a public notice signed by Mr Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad, the Director, Communications and Liaison Department, this initiative is part of efforts at modernising tax administration, a crucial goal since he assumed the helm of the tax body.
“TaxPro-Max enables seamless registration, filling, payment of taxes and automatic credit of withholding tax as well as other credits to the taxpayer’s accounts, among other features.
“The TaxPro-Max also provides a single-view to taxpayers for all transactions with the service,” the disclosure explained.
The TaxPro-Max platform is accessible at www.taxpromax.firs.gov.ng
Mr Nami noted that from Monday, June 7, 2021, the TaxPro-Max will “become the channel for filing Naira-denominated tax returns” in the country.
Consequently, Mr Nami has said “all Naira-denominated tax returns are to be filed via the TaxPro-Max Solution in order to generate the obligatory Document Identity Number (DIN)”.
He added that henceforth, “Taxpayers will not be able to pay without DIN; as such taxpayers wanting to submit their tax returns manually must visit the relevant tax office where FIRS personnel will be on hand to assist them to upload the returns and generate the DIN.
“In view of the time it might take to upload manual returns and generate the DIN, taxpayers are encouraged to bring manual returns for upload, at least, two weeks before the due date;
“Qualified personnel of the service are on hand to assist taxpayers experiencing challenges in filing returns on the TaxPro-Max. They may be reached via email, [email protected]”.
Mr Nami advised that “taxpayers that are yet to get their user credentials to visit the nearest FIRS Tax Office to be on board immediately”.
