FG Begins Special Training for Community Tax Officers

• FG Begins Special Training for Community Tax Officers

The Federal Government on Friday commenced training of 27 unemployed graduates that were recruited as Community Tax Liaison Officers to boost tax awareness.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, made this known to journalists after her meeting with the graduates currently undergoing their training at the Federal Treasury Academy, Abuja

She said that the 27 people had been selected from the N-Power programme to be the pilot set of the community tax awareness project.

She said, “We want to run this pilot edition early, so we can see how much they have learned, how good our training materials are, so that when we get the 7,500 graduates, we will be ready.”

Adeosun had last week, announced that it would recruit 7,500 graduates through the N-Power programme as Community Tax Liason Officers to raise tax awareness among citizens.

The graduates would be recruited on a two-year fixed contract at N30,000 per month and a promise of added incentives such as sponsored professional training on tax if the programme becomes a success.

The recruits will be expected to go to schools, churches, mosques, markets and other social places to educate people on the tax system.

Through the programme, the federal government expects to increase the number of taxpayers by 35 per cent, from 14 million to about 17 million in two years.