President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a letter to Babatunde Fowler, Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, asking him to respond to discrepancies in tax collected by the agency.
Fowler, whose tenure expired on Saturday, was asked to explain why there exist obvious differences between the budgeted collections and actual collections for the period 2015 to 2018. The letter to Fowler signed by Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, reads, “Your attached letter on the above subject matter, refers.
“We observed significant variances between the budgeted collections and actual collections for the period 2015 to 2018. "Accordingly, you are kindly invited to submit a comprehensive variance analysis explaining the reasons for the variances between budgeted and actual collections for each main tax item for each of the years 2015 to 2018.“You are invited to respond by 19 August 2019.Fowler was asked to handover to the next most senior person in FIRS as he was given up till August 19 to respond to the query, TheCable reports.
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