The Cross River State Internal Revenue Service (CRIRS), has organized a two-day management Strategic Session for the year 2024.
The session which started on Thursday, 8th ends today, Friday, 9th February, 2024 at Monty Suites/Conference, Calabar is to review the Service's performance from 2021-2023 and also to discuss the 2024 target and strategies to achieving and exceeding the target, from
In his opening remarks, the Acting Executive Chairman of the Service, Prince Edwin Okon, appreciated members of Staff for a job well done in year 2023, maintaining that the strategic session is pertinent to explore new areas of growth for year 2024 in the tax system.
To further strengthen the tax body, the IRS Boss announced that new departments/units within the Service, have been created to see how this feat can be achieved in the new year and charged the officers manning new offices not to disappoint him.
The newly created offices are; the High Networth Individuals/Digital Economy Department, Property Tax Department, Informal Sector/New Growth Areas and Special Taxes, are green areas which are expected to upscale the State's revenue growth.
In his keynote address, the Cross River State Head of Service, Dr. Innocent Eteng, pointed out that the subject of taxation is very sensitive and the strategic session is timely to address salient issues in revenue generation.
"Globally, there is a paradigm shift, think of rapid ways to bring about positive development for the State and improvement in our revenue generation." He added.
He stated emphatically that the CRIRS has a dynamic, young, energetic and professional gentleman occupying the Executive Chairman's seat of which he has exhibited capacity for calling his team together irrespective of the challenges surrounding the Service and assured staff that with the Chairman's wealth of knowledge, the Service will not only hit its target but also exceed that target.
He charged the team to cooperate with the Chairman to push revenue forward and curb leakages under the Governor Otu led administration .
Eteng concluded by informing that the Executive Governor of Cross River State, His Excellency, Senator Prince Bassey Otu, has seen the good reports of Prince Edwin Okon and the CRIRS at large assuring them of the State government's continuous support to push IGR forward.
Also present at the event was the Cross River Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Mike Odere, who enjoined staff to work as a team to achieve a common goal.
