Oyebanji At JTB Retreat, Harps On Effective, Equitable Tax System

Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji has called connected members of the Joint Tax Board (JTB), the apex assemblage of each taxation authorities successful Nigeria, to guarantee effectual and equitable taxation strategy successful the country, successful a bid to guarantee the fulfilment of the taxation reforms of President Bola Tinubu precocious passed by the National Assembly.

The politician stated this astatine the opening ceremonial of the 2025 Joint Tax Board Strategic Retreat held astatine Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort, Ikogosi-Ekiti yesterday.

Oyebanji reaffirmed the committedness of his medication towards the implementation of the nationalist taxation reforms, noting that the value of a robust taxation strategy successful driving economical maturation and citizens’ payment cannot beryllium over-emphasised.

The politician commended President Tinubu for proposing a far-reaching betterment aimed astatine lifting the surviving standards of citizens which, according to him, is genuinely transformative and a corporate fulfilment of the societal declaration that reinforces antiauthoritarian governance for the beingness of the country.

He explained that the cardinal objectives of the measure were aimed astatine deepening the taxation base, heighten gross mobilisation, simplify compliance procedures, foster transparency and accountability crossed gross agencies, arsenic good arsenic promote digitalisation successful taxation administration. He added that the implementation of the measure adjacent twelvemonth would reshape process of gross mobilisation and transportation of sustainable development.

The politician charged participants astatine the retreat which included enforcement chairmen of interior gross services of the 36 states of the federation to efficaciously deliberate connected the implications of the instrumentality to nationalist improvement which helium described arsenic a pivotal displacement towards a resilient and self-reliant system to execute transformative policy.

Commending the state’s interior gross work led by its chairman, Mr Olaniran Olatona for their professionalism and strategical innovation, the politician revealed that his medication had been capable to cogwheel up internally generated gross of the authorities from N650 cardinal to implicit N2 cardinal wrong 26 months serving arsenic basal for providing captious backing to present dividends of ideology to the people.

In his remarks, the chairman, Joint Tax Board, Mr Zacch Adedeji, who commended Governor Oyebanji for providing effectual enactment for interior gross work to thrive successful the authorities noted that the taxable of the retreat, “Re-imagining the Nigeria taxation eco-system: harnessing the 4 taxation betterment laws arsenic crippled changers successful taxation administration” was apt and critically chosen to enforce President Tinubu’s taxation betterment nationally.