By FABIRI JOSEPHINE

All consultants of taxes, who have been in charge of generating revenue for ministries, departments and agencies are directed to reapply to the management of the Delta State Revenue Services, as the board has been given the statutory right to generate revenue for the state.

This is in a bid to harmonize the collection of taxes, fees and levies. All who manage generation of revenue must be under the board of Delta State Revenue Services.
The statement was made on Wednesday by the chairman of the board, Sir. Monday Onyeme, in a meeting between board members and consultants of taxes of MDA's at the conference centre of the headquarters

The chairman, informed the consultants that the exercise of harmonization is not to witch-hunt anyone but to enable the management to be at the same page with the consultants.

He also asked the consultants to submit their credentials which include their award of contract letters, their accreditation letters and their memorandum of agreements for proper evaluation to ascertain the genuineness of their companies and those who have previously performed satisfactorily will become consultants for the board.

The chairman, who was represented by the secretary of the board, Chief Mike Edegware, informed the consultants, saying:“Revenue generation is a determinant of revenue allocation, if we lost revenue, we lost allocation.

“Therefore those who would eventually become consultants for the board should put in more effort to increase the tax net; it doesn’t necessarily mean increasing taxes but bringing more people to be captured into the tax net.”

He assured them that the boardwas going to be part of the process of monitoring and seeing that they run their operations seamlessly and also ensuring therewas a singular reward system that puts everyone on the same platform.

Also, theDirector ofOperations, Mr Monday Ojulari, told the consultants that before their applicationswouldbe considered, they must submit their tax clearance certificates.