The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has through its Public Notice of 8 February 2022, officially declared that the use of its originally developed digital platform for tax filing and administration – SIGTAS-ITAS Platform, had been discontinued.
The TaxPro-Max – a new digital online platform developed in-house by the FIRS and deployed for public use in 2021 has now replaced the former system (SIGTAS-ITAS) following the full implementation of the TaxPro-Max solution.
This clarification is important as many tax stakeholders still confuse or mistake the TaxPro-Max to be part of, or an extension or reformation of the ITAS platform.
The FIRS by this Public Notice, is urging taxpayers to embrace and support the TaxPro-Max as it is expected to improve tax administration by easing the process of tax compliance, enhancing transparency, and providing convenience. The Service further assures the public that taxpayers’ data from the previous SIGTAS-ITAS have been securely and successfully migrated and archived in line with the FIRS’ data protection and privacy rules.
While the TaxPro-Max solution is a welcome development, the FIRS is encouraged to fix the system bugs and challenges which taxpayers have continued to encounter, e.g., intermittent downtimes, intermittent malfunction, cumbersomeness in filing of certain tax returns, non-activation/ non-inclusion of tax clearance processing functionality, erroneous/ duplicate assessments, non-reflection of actual period covered by some taxes being processed, etc.
For more enquiries or help with using TaxPro-Max, please send ann email to us via clients@vi-m.com