Buhari’s query was written through the office of the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and dated August 8th.
In the letter seen by SocietyGists, President Buhari said the Presidency has “observed significant variances between the budgeted collections and actual collections for the period 2015 to 2018.”
Reports have revealed that the FIRS has been unable to meet its collection target since the inception of Buhari’s government in 2015.
The Presidency has also invited Fowler, a former LIRS boss for questioning on the inability to meet its targets.
“Accordingly, you are kindly invited to submit a comprehensive variance analysis explaining the reasons for the variances between the budgeted collections and actual collections for each main tax item for each of the years 2015 to 2018,” Kyari wrote.
It has also been discovered that the only time the FIRS failed to meet its collection target since the year 2000 was in 2006. Ever since Fowler came on board, there has been lesser tax returns and the Presidency has also asked for an explanation of this.
“Further we have observed that actual collections for the period between 2015 and 2017 were significantly worse than what was collected between 2012 and 2014,” stated Mr Kyari. “Accordingly, you are kindly invited to explain the reasons for the poor collections.”
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