The Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) has announced that it collected a total of N14.16 billion in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the first two months of 2025.
KADIRS disclosed this in a statement released Friday in reaction to a claim that suggested a decline in IGR under the present administration.
According to the statement signed by the Head of Corporate Communication KADIRS, Malam Zakari Jamilu Muhammad, the state recorded IGR of N7.47 billion in January 2025 and N6.69 billion in February 2025, bringing the total revenue for the two months to N14.16 billion.
“As a validation of the reforms in the revenue sector of the state under Governor Uba Sani, in 2023 and 2024, Kaduna State collected IGR of ₦62.48 billion and ₦71 billion respectively, consolidating its place as the leading IGR performing state in northern Nigeria in the last two years.
“Furthermore, in the months of January and February 2025, Kaduna state has already collected an IGR of ₦7.46 billion and ₦6.68 billion respectively, bringing the total revenue collected in two months to ₦14.16 billion,” he said.
Malam Zakari said Governor Uba Sani hds introduced a series of reforms that have improved tax collection and made tax payment easy, including “an integrated tax administration portal (PAYKADUNA), financial inclusion initiatives, enhanced taxpayers and stakeholders’ engagement.”
According to him, KADIRS has also deployed “the first-of-its-kind interactive voice response system for taxpayer complaints redressal among several initiatives that have resulted in improved tax administration in the state.”
He further expatiate on the current automation process of tax collection, saying “payments are made through the PAYKADUNA portal or via pay direct channels from which they are swept directly into the state’s Treasury Single Accounts.”
He noted that the process ensures that staffers of the Service have no access or interaction with tax collections.
“The IGR account is a collection and transit account and not an expenditure account therefore, it is highly inaccurate to think that any amounts can be withdrawn from it to service any interests,” he said.
The statement noted that “the current level of IGR collection of the state speaks to the competence of the Chairman, the management team of the Service and the support they enjoy from the state to function as a professional and apolitical revenue authority of the state.”