ABSTRACT
This research work is titled “Problems and prospects of in of income tax Administration in Nigeria” the aim of this work is summarization as determining the proportion of taxation adults who pay tax, the root cause of non payment of tax, rate of tax compliance of self employed persons, taxes collected whether they are correctly remitted to the government. In the light of these the research problem is to identify the hoop holes in the administrative machinery of income tax in Nigeria. In the course of this work, the methodology context will be explored in the note of data collection and analysis. The data are well collected from both primary and secondary sources which include questionnaire, discussions with officials of the board, tax journal and website of the board. In this research work, the researcher identified his findings to improving income tax administration in Nigeria lead to better prospect. The researcher, for the course of this study recommended the following, that the tax should be regu8arly reviewed, that there should be a tremendous monitoring of the various tax officials and that the federal in and Revenue service (FIRS) should be equipped with modern facilities as all this help to foster a better tax system in Nigeria.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Title Page i
Approval Page ii
Dedication
iii
Acknowledgement iv
Abstract vi
Table of Content vi
CHAPTERS
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature
Review
Chapter 3: Research Design
and Methodology
Chapter 4: Presentation
and Analysis of Data
Chapter 5: Summary,
Conclusion and Recommendation.
CHAPTER
ONE
1.0 Introduction 1
1.1 Background of the
study 1
1.2 Statement of the
problem 2
1.3 Objectives of the
study 3 1.4 Research Question 4
1.5 Significance of the
study 5
1.6 Scope of the study 6
1.7 Limitation of the
study 6
1.8 Definition of terms 7
CHAPTER
TWO
2.0 Literature review 10
2.1Introduction 10
2.2 Nature of taxation 16
2.3 Structure and
Administration of Nigeria Tax System 18
2.4 The State Board of
Internal Revenue 19
2.5 Process of Tax
Administration in Nigeria 22
2.6 Looking at some tax
Legislature in Nigeria 29
2.7 Problems of tax
administration in Nigeria 31
2.8 Problems of tax
administration in Imo State 39
2.9 Tax evasion and
avoidance 42
2.10 Prospects of Income
Tax Administration 43
CHAPTER
THREE
3.0 Research design and
methodology 45
3.1 Introduction 45
3.2 Research design 45
3.3 Sources/methods of
data collection 46
3.4 Population and sample
size 47
3.5 Sample technique 47
3.6 Method of data
analysis. 48
CHAPTER
FOUR
4.0 Presentation and
analysis of data 49
4.1 Introduction 49
4.2 Presentation of data 49
4.3 Analysis of data 50
CHAPTER
FIVE
5.0 Summary, conclusion
and recommendations 57
5.1 Summary of findings 57
5.2 Conclusion 58
5.3 Recommendations 59
References 60
Appendix 1
Appendix 11
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Nigeria
is organized by a federal system, hence its fiscal operation adhere to the same
principle. This has serious implications on how the tax system is administered
in the country. In Nigeria the government’s fiscal power is based on a three
tiered tax structure divided between the federal state and local government,
each having a different tax jurisdiction, as at 2003 about forty (40) different
taxes and levies are shared among the three levels of government which are
their sources of revenue.
The Nigeria tax system is lopsided and dominated by oil revenue. The most veritable tax are handled by the federal government and the lower tiers are responsible for the less buoyant ones. The federal tax corporate bodies while state government and local government tax individual except the residence of federal capital territory, personnel income of police, armed forces department of foreign affairs which are strictly for federal government. The federal government on average account for 90% of the overall revenue annually. In 2005 the breakdown of total tax and levy collection of the three tiers of government was 96.4 percent for the federal state and 0.6 percent for the local government (Philips) (1997). A major element contributing to this development was the prolonged military rule that has ignored constitutional provisions. Indeed because of the various quest of the government in redistribution of income, poverty eradication emphasizing the rise in per capital income solving unemployment problems and reduce inequality which is a breath on the nostril of a modern government.
Taxation
therefore, is a compulsory levy imposed by the subjects or upon his properties
as to up it’s over sight function. The main purpose of taxation is to raise
fund to meet government’s expenditure and redistribute incomes or wealth and
management of the economy. Tax collected comes back to the people informed of
social amenities. As these amenities increase taxation assure as greater
importance since it’s the major source of government revenue. Taxation
encourages savings and regulates expenditure. The granting of tax relief
provides incentives for the private sector; the direct tax especially the
pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) is progressively high so as to redistribute income of
individuals equitably. Some individual regard taxation as important fiscal
measures not only for the benefits it yields to the government but also because
it directly affects this income level and therefore, their standard of living.
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Then Nigeria Inland Revenue which eventually passed through series of transformation was created in 1943 when it was cut out from the erstwhile Inland Revenue Department that covered what was then the Anglo-phone West Africa (Including Ghana, Gambia and Sierra leone) during the colonial era.In 1958, the Board of Inland Revenue was established under the Income Tax Ordinance of 1958. The name was later changed in 1961 when the Federal Board of Inland Revenue (FBIR) was established under section 4 of the company Income Tax Act (CITA).
A further transformation of the FBIR took
place when the finance (Miscellaneous Taxation Provisions) Act No. 3 of 1993
established the Federal Inland Revenue Service as the operational arm of FBIR.
The federal Inland Revenue Service is a
statutory body which has the administrative responsibility for the assessment,
collection and accounting for the following taxes:
- Petroleum Profit tax
- Companies Income tax
- Withholding tax on Companies,residents of the federal capital territory and Non-residents
- Value added tax
- Education tax
- Capital gains tax on persons, corporate, residents of the federal capital territory and Non-residents individuals
- Stamp duties on bodies, corporate and resident of federal capital territory
- Personal Income tax of all eligible persons.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
These are legion of
problems militating against the Income tax administration in Nigeria. So of
them are highlighted thus:
- Tax evasion by tax payers were by an individual makes a deliberate attempt to establish tax
- Full identification of persons to be taxed are not know because adequate tax roll is not available
- Lack of requisite and qualification of the officials
- Problems of assessment whereby notice can be servered to an individual because of address and place of residence cannot be easily traced
- Difficulties of the collection: these occurs when some individual refuse to pay tax
- Embezzlement and pilferage of tax proceeds: these happens when tax so collected are manipulated
- Poor infrastructure and other facilities for the officials
COMPANIES INCOME TAX ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA; PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS(A CASE STUDY OF THE FEDERAL INLAND REVENUE SERVICES OWERRI AND ORLU)
