Record of Taxable Adult Commences In Jigawa State

In Jigawa state, there is now a process to gather the records of all adults that eligible to pay tax. This is to make it easy to track all revenue due to government and close all leakages.

The chairman of the state revenue board, Alhaji Muktar A. Wada stated that success of revenue collection depended on the right information on people under the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) scheme.

He disclosed that revenue payment was automated in such a way that revenue for Jigawa could be paid from anywhere in the country through the pay direct system.

He indicated that the major tax paying people were the civil servants adding that 90 per cent of revenues were from the PAYE scheme. But that when the personal income tax amendment law was signed by the president it would help the civil servants and low income earners

“The president has said he was going to sign the personal income tax amendment law and when the law comes into operation it is going to favor not only the civil servants but the salary earners. All those earning incomes within the range of only N300, 000 are going to pay less than 0.5 per cent. It is an achievement because it means that the purchasing power of the low-income earners is going to increase.