The Taraba State Board of Internal Revenue Service in Collaboration with I-Tech Platform Limited has organized a two day training exercise towards the full automation of revenue collection.
The two day training held at the Taraba state Board of Internal Revenue Service conference Hall in Jalingo, the Taraba state Capital, is focused on Revenue Collection Automation with the aim of improving the revenue profile of the State.
Declaring the training open, the Chairman Taraba State Board of Internal Revenue Service, General Jeremiah Faransa, retired, emphasized the need to prioritise training and re-training of staff for efficient service delivery.
He explained that the essence of the training was to bring staff up-to-date with the best revenue collection and management system, make tax collection easier, and ultimately improve the processes of internally generated revenue of Taraba State.
The Chairman added that other states have gone far in times of digitization advising the participants to be committed as the training will groom them towards productive outcome. He also enjoyed them to fully utilised the system.
General Faransa rtd., appreciated I-Tech Platform Limited for deploying what he described as a robust system that will enhance revenue collections and improve generation in the state.
In their separate speeches, the CEO, I-Tech platform Limited, Mr Iliya Musa, and the CTO, Mr Joseph Adah Jonathan, expressed confidence in the Flopay Revenue Management System to automate the state internally generated revenue. They emphasise the need to transit from manual collections, which is often ripe with irregularities to digital system, describing it as the best and most efficient system of revenue collection.
They said the system has features that help create unique *taxpayer identity*, generate Tax Clearance Certificate, and Assessment, assuring that the system will boost the IGR of the state and also track payment irregularities.
Mr Iliya Musa further advice the state government to take the automation very seriously as well take action against those that may intend to jeopardize the process maintaining that the system flexible and can accommodate adjustment especially it’s features in the dashboard.
In an interview, the board members Taraba State internal Revenue Services, Mr. Theophilus Japhet and Mr. Maggai Bala Agyo commended
I-Tech Platform Limited for deploying the Flopay Revenue Management System and for the training, adding that it is a system that will synchronize and block leakages in the revenue collection process.
Some of the participants who spoke to journalists at the end of the two day training lauded the initiative promising commitment towards achieving the desired goals.