G2C Interface in collaboration with FIRS Tax Payers Service Department (TPSD)
The Imperatives of improving government revenue and the role of Stakeholders | Friday 6th December 2024
Friday 6th December 2024
Every Nation of the world, finds development in knowing their own people, defining their own environment, enacting laws for their own people to live by and building an environment suitable for their own people.
That is real democracy! A government with the involvement of the people.
A Nigeria that is customized for Nigerians!
Who we are is defined by our own Citizens. How we run our organizations must be in consultation and continuous deliberations with the Citizens and relevant Stakeholders, because, no one knows it all.
Our government must embrace the open minds of the people
and collaborate to build the Nation, together.
This is the reason for our gathering today. The Federal Inland Revenue Service under Dr. Zacch Adedeji, gathers together with the Tax Stakeholders to deliberate on THE IMPERATIVES OF IMPROVING GOVERNMENT REVENUE AND THE ROLE OF STAKEHOLDERS.
Today, we open up conversations on FIRS tax policies, collection and distribution of taxes, and the utilization of receivables.
Our aim at G2C Interface is to bridge the gap between Government and her agencies on one side, and the Nigerian Citizens on the other side.
If there is one thing I gained in office as the immediate past Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political Matters, it is that government is perceived to be distant from the Citizens, and they wonder if the government “will attend to the things that concern us”. This MUST be attended to!
That vacuum must be covered. The need to bridge that gap between government and her people is imperative. This is the G2C Interface.
We believe that, by the end of today’s gathering, Nigerian tax payers would have found more reasons, not just to continue to pay taxes, but would also support the FIRS to expand the tax net and boost National revenue.
Our present democracy and life, bit by bit, must be reviewed on the table of our diversity and redefined as the strength of our Nation. Then, a New Great Nigeria unfolds.
I await the day that Nigeria would be rechristened A NEW GREAT NIGERIA.
I welcome you all to today’s gathering. Let the deliberations begin.
God bless our Nation, Nigeria.
Dr. Bode ‘Gbore
Convener
G2C Interface
