Free meals may have come for Nigerian millionaires who don’t fulfil tax obligations as the Federal Inland Revenue Service is set to go after them.
FIRS Executive Chairman, Tunde Fowler, said on Thursday that the service would go after wealthy tax defaulters.
He said in a statement that it would go after 40,000 of such people, having realised N23bn from the 45,000 it earlier pursued.
During a visit by the Acting Inspector General of Police to the FIRS office, the statement said, the IG requested the law enforcers to assist it in the drive.
He said, “We looked at businesses, partnerships of any activity that has banking turnover between N100m and N999m. We have done a review of this group of businesses.
“We have about seven more banks that we are still waiting for the return from and to review their information.
“So far, we have 45,361 that have TIN and are making payments. We have 40,611 that have TIN, that made tax payment and, and we have 44,504 that have no TIN and no pay.
“So, when you look at it from a glance, we have close to 75,000 in this group that are still not taxpayers and we have said the payment of tax is not only for the civil servants. it’s for all Nigerians.
“So, the millionaires and the billionaires will pay tax on behalf of what is due to the national coffers.”
