Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) have set up a Joint Committee of Senior and Management Staff of the two regulatory agencies to enhance national revenues in the telecommunications sector of the economy.
The Joint Committee is expected to enable both regulatory organisations to further optimise revenues for the Federal Government from the telecoms, digital economy and adjacent sectors of the national economy
Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management at NCC, Mr. Adeleke Adewolu, inaugurated the 17-member committee on behalf of Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, the Commission’s Executive Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO), and Mr. Muhammad Nami, Executive Chairman of the FIRS, in the NCC’s Board Room, in Abuja, FCT on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
The inauguration of the committee, comprising six officials of NCC and eleven officials of FIRS, was carried out with senior officials of NCC and those of the tax agency led by its Coordinating Director for Compliance Support Group, Dr. Dick Irri, who represented the FIRS’ Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami at the event.
Adewolu stated the terms of reference (ToR) of the Committee to include: Review the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the NCC and the FIRS June 9, 2020; and carrying out inter-agency interaction on the implementation of the NCC’s Revenue Assurance System (RAS).
The NCC noted this measure is to ensure that the MoU incorporates the needs of FIRS to the extent that RAS could remain the sole interface with telecom service providers’ networks vis-à-vis the Tax Authority’s information needs from the telecoms sector.
Dr. Dick Irri, who led the FIRS delegation to the inauguration, advised the Committee to take the assignments very seriously.
“I would like to task you to take this assignment as a national matter as we expect the two agencies to work in harmony, collaborate effectively and have a warm handshake that will make this synergy between the two agencies a great example of collaboration between Federal Government agencies towards enhancing fiscal governance in Nigeria,” Irri said.