Mr Tunde Fowler, the Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Friday said the service was adopting technology to boost tax collection in 2017.
Fowler disclosed this at the closing ceremony of a three-day training on taxation for journalists in Lagos.
He said that the service collected N3.30 trillion in taxes in 2016, a drop from the N3.74 trillion it collected in 2015.
The FIRS boss, represented by Mrs Nneka ifekwuna, the Deputy Director of Communications and Servicom, said the service was convinced that 2017 would be a better year in terms of tax collection .
Fowler said that apart from the use of technology, the agency was also using persuasion and enforcement as well as partnership with the press to boost tax revenue.
He said that other efforts included ongoing nationwide registration of new taxpayers to expand the tax net in the country.
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