Lagos Assembly confirms new LIRS Chairman

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have confirmed Ayodele Zubair as the Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service.
The State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, had sent his name to the House for approval as the new LIRS boss.
Zubair, born in 1960, is a graduate of Accounting from Manchester Polytechnic and worked for five years at Pricewater before he later became one of the directors at his father’s firm, Hamzat Zubair Folami & Co.
He is a fellow of some professional bodies in the country, among which are Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Institute of Taxation.
The new LIRS boss told the lawmakers before his confirmation that he had worked as one of the pioneer directors at the state Lottery Board.
He promised to bring transformation to the tax collection process in the state, noting that through computerisation and collaboration, better results would be achieved.
Zubair promised to beam his searchlight more on those in the informal sector and incorporate them into the tax net of the state.
Zubair said: “Informal sector is very significant for effective tax collection.
“We shall, for a start, introduce presumptive tax at the informal sector, and through this, we will subsequently get additional information to raise more revenue.
“Through technology, computerisation and collaboration, there would be coordination to have sufficient data about every prospective tax payer.”