The ongoing database consolidation of the Joint Tax Board (JTB) has seen Nigeria’s data base of tax payers expanding from 20 million to 35 million.
The Executive Secretary of the Board, Mr Oseni Elamah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Abuja that database consolidation of JTB was an initiative being executed in collaboration with the Nigeria Inter Bank Settlement System (NIBSS).
He said that the figure of the taxpayers comprised both individuals and corporate bodies.
He said that this showed that there was massive expansion of database pointing out that one could imagine when that translated to actual taxes that were collected in Naira and Kobo.
“At the moment, we are trying to break them into classes of taxpayers and various jurisdictions where they reside, state by state.
“Hopefully, by first week of January 2019, this information will be communicated to all the states and then we will ask them to file their reports for tax assessment…
