The Joint Tax Board has honoured the past Chairperson of Federal Inland Revenue Service; Mr Tunde Fowler, former Chairman of Gombe State Internal Revenue Service; Inuwa Abubakar Tata, Deputy Governor, Delta State; Monday John Onyeme, and a host of others in its 2024 send-off dinner and award night held at Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
PERISCOPE NIGERIA reports that the event was held during the 154th meeting of the Joint Tax Board and had in attendance the representative of the Executive Chairman, FIRS, former Chairmen of the FIRS, former and serving Executive Secretaries of the JTB, former Chairmen of State Internal Revenue Services, and the current Chairmen of sub-nationals IRS including the Chairman, Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Mr Taiwo Oyedele.
Tata’s award was in appreciation of his invaluable contributions towards actualising the vision of the Joint Tax Board during his tenure as Executive Chair, of Gombe State Internal Revenue Service. As an active member of the JTB, Tata cleared all outstanding JTB liabilities (Annual Subscription) running into millions of naira when he took over the mantle of leadership of the State Revenue Service.
He served as member of the Finance and General-Purpose Committee of the JTB and a representative of North-East Chairs of IRS at the JTB Special Committee on Inter-Agency Collaboration for Effective Tax Compliance by Political Office Holders which comprises the INEC, ICPC, CCB, and the JTB, among many other committees.
The former Chairman also represented the North-East region on the State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability programme of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Finance.
Tata is a Public Financial Management Specialist and a reformer who conducted end-to-end revenue reforms from taxpayer registration to tax enforcement by capturing over 85,000 property owners in the IRS digital tax net (G-TIN) and by establishing the Gombe State Revenue Recovery Tribunal while still superintending the Public Financial Management Reform at the Fiscal Responsibility Commission.
He was the first Revenue and Tax Administrator who opted out on his own volition to consolidate his reforms at the Fiscal Responsibility Commission before the end of his secondment. Tata was the longest-serving political appointee under Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya who spent four uninterrupted years as Chair of State Fiscal Watchdog.
Masha Allah , my brother honour well deserve may God guide you and protect Ameen ❤️
Masha Allah , my brother honour well deserve may God guide you and protect Ameen ❤️