LIRS engages ATD Global Security Services LTD as tax consultants

Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has engaged ATD Global Security Services LTD as tax consultants on the newly introduced implementation of the single Inter-State Road Tax Sticker (SIRTS) and Single Haulage Fee (SHF) initiative.

The Joint Tax Board (JTB) and its Technical Committee comprising 36 State Board of Internal Revenue Services and FCT Board of Internal Revenue Services, following the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and extant laws, have unanimously and respectively issued communiques on the harmonisation of this policy.

Collaborating with the Lagos State chapter of local government areas and local council development areas tagged Conference 57, 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs. ATD Global Security Services Ltd trained 30 revenue agents per each LGAs and LCDAs in 2021 at the Police College, Ikeja.

These revenue agents were re-trained recently at the same Police College to implement the policy.

JTB has signed an agreement with the police, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), other security agencies and necessary stakeholders in the haulage industry for effective monitoring and enforcement, to stamp out the activities of unscrupulous and illegal revenue and taxes collectors from our land, in order to enhance ease of doing business.