Organized and reliable candidate able to manage multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
- Ensure accounts payable (Cost of Collection) to the Service are collected and safeguarded;
- Ensure other sources of revenue (e.g. tenders fee, contractor’s fee, income from disposal of unserviceable items ) to the Government are collected and remitted promptly to the Sub-treasury of the State;
- Maintain relevant books of accounts and records;
- Advise Management on income expenditure;
- Prepare and secure budget approval;
- Prepare and send financial reports to relevant authorities;
- Disburse funds for approved capital and recurrent expenditures; - Improve liaison and relationship with other departments within EIRS in relation to accounts payable and expenditures and also other relevant organizations outside EIRS like State Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant General of the State, State House of Assembly, Auditor-General of the State, etc, so as to achieve quality service delivery
To organise regular stakeholders sensitization meetings with a view to acquainting taxpayers and other stakeholders with their roles and obligations as taxpayers;
- To ensure that taxpayers covered by the office understand tax returns filing and payment obligations and sanctions for default of tax laws and regulations, processes for appeal and the possibility of defaults culminating in litigation; - To ensure that Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government within the jurisdiction of the office, and other tax collection Agents make tax deductions at source correctly and remit taxes deducted at source timely; - To take steps that would result in expansion of the tax base by getting all taxpayers registered promptly and that taxpayer registration numbers ( TIN ) are issued to them promptly; - To ensure that taxpayers request for tax clearance are processed and that such certificates are issued to taxpayers that qualify, within the period specified in the law; - To ensure that the office carries out tax compliance checks through prompt tax returns processing to ascertain their correctness and the timeliness of payments with a view to ascertaining that taxpayers carried out their tax obligations as and when due. In appropriate cases the books of the taxpayer will be audited following a risk based case selection;
- To ensure that the offices apply sanctions, as provided by relevant tax laws, to cases of default of the tax laws and to prosecute defaulters where necessary;
- To ensure that line staff carryout their duties in line with the objectives of the Service and in accordance with processes and procedures approved in work manuals;
- To identify the training needs of staff and to ensure that such needs are brought to the attention of appropriate Head Quarters functions and to follow up for the needs to be provided with a view to improving the performance;
- To manage staff of the Office in a manner that motivates them while initiating appropriate steps or disciplinary measures to correct actions of staff that are contrary to the core values of the Service ; and
- To carry out other duties that may be assigned by Management
- To check for omissions in tax returns;
- To subject tax returns to due date validation; - To impose immediate sanctions by applying penalty and interest from due date;
- To ensure correct tax rates are applied in the computation of relevant taxes;
- Ensure that correct rates are applied in the computation of Capital Allowances and validate Schedule of Assets, as the case may be;
- Ensure the correctness of balances brought forward and that carried forward;
- To ascertain the correctness of rates of withholding tax and that they were applied to appropriate transactions and businesses
- Check the correctness of the computation of minimum tax where applicable; - Ascertain the correctness of the computation of capital gains tax and the true value of assets disposed off;
- To ensure that correct rates of stamp duties were applied in stamping documents and that stamp duties were paid for the stamping of documents within the jurisdiction of the Service;
- To ascertain the correctness of fee/rates applicable to other taxes and the authenticity of the documents processed; and
- To render all such other services consequential in the processing of tax/revenue documents