Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has proposed N356.95 billion 2024 budget to the federal government.
Gatekeepers News reports that this is contained in the 2024 Government-Owned Entities’ (GOE’s) budget proposal.
According to the proposed budget of N356,951,441,648, the FIRS plans to spend N11,070,000,000 on long service awards, N13,617,615,408 on welfare packages as well as N4,599,450,000 on the purchase of computers while networking/communications or information technology infrastructure takes N3,715,524,465.10.
In addition, the revenue agency budgeted N5,550,000,000 to purchase motor vehicles and N1,350,000,000.00 to maintain vehicles and transport equipment.
On power supply, the revenue will spend N2,480,840,000 on purchasing power generating set, N2,700,000,000 on fueling plant/generator, and N1,260,000,000.00 on electricity charges in one year.
FIRS also designated N15,222,000,000 on local grants and contributions to government-owned companies and N180,000,000 as grants to foreign international organisations.
Also included in the budget is N10,200,415,000 earmarked for local (N7,500,415,000) and international (N2,700,000,000) training.
In the budget, the revenue agency plans to spend N4,500,000,000.00 on local travel and transport, while international travel and transport is expected to gulp N1,350,000,000.00.
