The United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Antonio Guteress
has named the Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)
Babatude Fowler as a member of the International Experts Committee on Tax
Matters...
The committee, which has 25 members worldwide, will operate for four
years. The news of Fowler’s appointment was conveyed to the FIRS by Bolaji
Akinremi, minister plenipotentiary of Nigeria permanent mission in New York.
Akinremi, in a mail to the FIRS, said: “I have great joy to inform you that the
UN secretary-general, H.E Antonio Guteress, has appointed Mr. Babatunde Fowler
as one of the 25 members of the prestigious International Experts Committee on
Tax Matters for four-year tenure to commence at the inauguration ceremony in
Geneva on 1 October 2017. “In addition to the notification of the appointment
by the SG to the UN economic council already placed on the website of the
council, individual letters of appointment would be addressed to the appointee
and the appointee is to formally accept the nomination through a letter of
acceptance addressed to the UNSG through the Nigeria permanent mission, New
York.” Fowler, who is also the chairman of the African Tax Administration
Forum, (ATAF) and the Joint Tax Board (JTB), was chairman, Lagos Internal
Revenue Service (LIRS). As the LIRS chairman, the state’s internally generated
revenue was said to have risen from an average of N3.6 billion monthly, as at
January 2006, to an average of over N23 billion monthly as at June 2015. FIRS
recently announced it generated N2.11 trillion as revenue from January to July
2017, a sharp increase from the N3.303 trillion it realised in the whole of
2016. 
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