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Federal Inland Revenue Service

Federal Inland Revenue Service

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), now operating as the Nigeria Revenue Service, is Nigeria's federal tax authority responsible for assessing, collecting, and accounting for tax revenues on behalf of the Nigerian government, and providing taxpayer services and compliance oversight.www.firs.gov.ng

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Oct 10, 2026

Sam AdeyemiGUEST
11:27
He picked entrepreneurs, right? Everyday people.
Sam AdeyemiGUEST
11:32
He picked a Matthew whom today you would say, is working for the Nigeria Revenue Service, right? That's a civil servant.
Sam AdeyemiGUEST
11:44
And the tax collectors were actually notorious in those days for being corrupt, right? James and John Peter Fisherman, right? So this gospel, obviously from scratch, was not meant to be something that would be practiced in seclusion, detached from the society.
Sam AdeyemiGUEST
12:13
Most of the illustrations that Christ used were the things that the average person experienced every day.
TunjiHOST
23:11
And the experience I have is with misrepresented accounts for my business.
TunjiHOST
23:18
I got an email from the Nigeria Revenue Service last week that I would be fined $5.7 million for my business.
TunjiHOST
23:34
And the reason why they are threatening to fine me $5.7 million is because of misrepresented accounts.
TunjiHOST
23:42
So my own case is that We didn't file our tax returns for last year.
TunjiHOST
23:49
Even if it was new, we should have still filed new.
MekusHOST
23:56
Yeah.
TunjiHOST
23:56
So because of that misrepresentation, the Nigeria Revenue Service in their discretion can decide to finance any amount they see fit.
TunjiHOST
24:10
Now, this is in my own small way, right? What I'm facing, and I've got to find a way to deal with that, right? Now, we're not even talking about a more advanced country like the United Kingdom.
Mustafa Chike-ObiHOST
17:26
And the answer that they are paying debt, paying down debt is not enough.
Mustafa Chike-ObiHOST
17:32
We must see tangible benefits, and I will assure the, what do you call it, Nigeria Revenue Service, that I will happily pay their taxes if they can show me that the taxes are being used for the benefit of Nigerians, and I think you're in that camp too.
Ken IkpeHOST
17:52
Yeah.
Mustafa Chike-ObiHOST
17:53
Okay.
Mustafa Chike-ObiHOST
17:54
I don't like to see the chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service in first class.
Mustafa Chike-ObiHOST
18:05
I don't like to see that.
Mustafa Chike-ObiHOST
18:07
I don't like to see him in private jets.
Osagie AlongeHOST
56:24
Okay, 2013.
Osagie AlongeHOST
56:33
He was arrested by a special enforcement unit of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
Osagie AlongeHOST
56:44
Was he found guilty? I don't know.
Osagie AlongeHOST
56:48
I have to confirm that.
EmmanuelHOST
58:56
Next headline takes us to Nigeria, where the President, Bola Tinobu, has signed reforms consolidating Nigeria's overlapping tax regime into a single, simplified framework.
EmmanuelHOST
59:06
The FIRS, which is the Federal Inland Revenue Service, is being replaced by a new Nigeria Revenue Service.
EmmanuelHOST
59:13
The reform simplifies rates for individuals and small businesses, aiming to boost compliance and widen the tax base.
EmmanuelHOST
59:19
It's one of the biggest changes to Nigeria's fiscal architecture in decades, part of Bolatinebu's wider economic overhaul.

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