LIRS optimises payment procedures on e-tax

BY MIKE OCHONMA

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) is optimising its payment procedures for utmost efficiency and taxpayers’ convenience.

The agency said as part of its digitalisation process, it is discontinuing all previously used bill references effective from August 1, 2022.

Consequently, only the Enterprise Tax Solutions (eTax) generated bill references will be acceptable for tax payments.

The eTax platform (https://etax.lirs.net), which went live in October 2019, was launched by LIRS to engender seamless tax operations and reduce compliance costs to taxpayers. Since its launch, eTax has improved the effectiveness of tax administration in Lagos State.

Ayodele Subair, executive chairman of LIRS, said that the eTax was built as a one-stop shop for all tax transactions, and it is in the same spirit that the generation of bill references required for all tax payments is now exclusive to the eTax platform.

He reiterated that by the cut-off date of August 1, 2022, eTax would become the only authorised channel to generate bill reference for tax payments and other tax-related transactions in Lagos State.