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From Joe Obukata Ogbodu, Warri
DELTA State Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) has reached N104,080,603,826.74 between January 2025 and June 2025.
Executive Chairman of the Board, Solomon Ighrakpata stated that the collected revenue was against N78,017,546,571.06 collected for the same period in 2024.
The 2025 revenue has a positive variance of N26,063,057,255.68 or 133.41 percent performance.
Ighrakpata explained that with the cumulative IGR collection figure of N104,080,603,826.74 for the period of January 2025 to June 2025, the revenue service has achieved approximately 77.62 percent of the annual revenue target of N134,092,848,109 in the 2025 budget estimates.
He stated that the board was very hopeful of surpassing the revenue target at the end of the 2025 fiscal year.
Chairman of the state Internal Revenue Service (IRS) attributed the factors responsible for the success story to include judicious use of taxpayers’ monies to execute landmark projects across the three senatorial districts by Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and teamwork by board members and management of the service. He also paid tributes to the technical support by lead Consultants to the service, ICMA Professional Services and Zopaz Advisory Services for their commitment to IGR drives in the state.
He also acknowledged the engagements with relevant stakeholders, sensitisation and education of taxpayers, implementation of whistle blowers’ policy and the constitution of the Executive Chairman Intelligence Gathering and Compliance Monitoring Unit and Tax Investigation Unit, effective utilisation of Tax Audit Review Committee (TARC) meeting for reconciliation or speedy resolutions of tax liabilities objections among others, as steps taken by the board to achieve the desired outcomes.
He expressed gratitude to all relevant stakeholders, including ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government, ministries, departments and agencies of the state government, the security agencies, and the revenue collecting banks.
He also thanked the organised private sector, professional bodies, unions, trade associations, business groups, traditional institutions, local government authorities and others, who have continued to partner with the Service by performing their civic responsibility of paying their due taxes to the Delta State Government.
He maintained that the development had greatly assisted the Service to shore up the IGR, thereby providing the funds needed to execute more people-oriented projects under the M.O.R.E. agenda.
