{"id":73150,"date":"2025-08-14T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73150"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:22:44","slug":"armed-forces-key-to-record-tax-revenue-firs-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/14\/armed-forces-key-to-record-tax-revenue-firs-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces Key to Record Tax Revenue -FIRS Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Zacch Adedeji, has hailed the Nigerian Armed Forces as a crucial partner in the country\u2019s record-breaking tax revenue drive.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a courtesy visit by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, to the FIRS headquarters in Abuja, Adedeji credited improved security in oil-producing regions for enabling the Service to surpass its 2025 oil and gas tax target.<\/p>\n<p>He said the peace and stability ensured by the military had allowed oil companies to operate without disruption, boosting production, profits, and tax contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Armed Forces are the caretakers of our economic vineyard. Without your protection, businesses cannot thrive, and without thriving businesses, there is nothing to tax,\u201d Adedeji remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The FIRS boss also commended President Bola Tinubu for his support to the military, citing the presidential approval for 1,550 housing units for security personnel as a mark of appreciation for their service.<\/p>\n<p>In response, General Musa praised the FIRS for its revenue mobilization, noting that collections had risen \u201calmost tenfold\u201d since Adedeji assumed office, improving the funding of national defense operations.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that military success depends on adequate financial resources, which come largely from tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Adedeji pledged continued collaboration and promised support for the African Chiefs of Defence Staff Conference, scheduled for August 25\u201327, 2025, in Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Zacch Adedeji, has hailed the Nigerian Armed Forces as a crucial partner in the country\u2019s record-breaking tax revenue drive. Speaking during a courtesy visit by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, to the FIRS headquarters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73152,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73150\/revisions\/73152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}