By Sani Idris
The Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS), has activated the “PayKaduna” portal for an effective tax management and revenue administration.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that governor Uba Sani, through his deputy, Hadiza Balarabe on 22nd of May 2024, unveiled the PayKaduna portal.
The portal is an innovative digital platform that is poised to revolutionalising the
administration of Internally Generated Revenue (|GR) across the state.
Declaring the official cutover to the PayKaduna portal on Wednesday in Kaduna, the Executive Chairman of the KADIRS, Mr Jerry Adams, said the
platform was meticulously designed to make revenue collections and tax administration seamless, transparent, and accessible for all stakeholders.
Adams said that the journey began months ago with a bold step by the service to restructure its revenue administrative processes and landscape, ensuring ultimately that their
approaches are more efficient and adequately serving taxpayers.
He added that the restructuring effort has birthed the most reflective PayKaduna portal which is a Kaduna-focused revenue administration portal.
“This is not just significant but clearly
underscores the visionary and pacesetting credentials of this administration.
“We are proud to emphasis that the PayKaduna portal marks a significant milestone in
our journey towards transforming revenue administration in Kaduna state towards improved compliance, simplified taxpayer experience and improved efficiency,”he said.
Recalling the executive launch of the portal, Adams quoted the governor as saying;
“I cannot over emphasise the importance of adopting the PayKaduna platform across all revenue-generating
agencies of the state because in today’s digital age, leveraging technology to
streamline processes is not just an option.
“it is a necessity. therefore, it is the
direction of this government to make PayKaduna the central payment point for
all of the state’s ministries, departments, and agencies.”
The executive chairman therefore said, the days’ event marked moving from the project launch to full operational deployment of PayKaduna across all major sectors and industries of the state’s economy.
He equally said the official go-live and cutover heralded the transition from the previous revenue administration system to the new streamlined tax administration regime
facilitated by the PayKaduna.
He emphasised that the strategic and administrative shift embodies the KADIRS dedication to enhancing efficiency, transparency, and accessibility in
revenue collection and tax administration.
“As we transit to this kaduna-focused system, it is therefore our target that the platform will not only streamline revenue administration but also set a new standard for efficiency, transparency, and accessibility,”he said.
Adams urged partners to collaborate and support the service to ensure that the project delivers successfully on its cardinal objectives.(NAN)
