The Ondo State Government has hailed Edo Governor, Godwin Obaseki for his efforts to reform and optimise tax administration in the state.

Director, Ondo State Internal Revenue, Segun Enikuomehin said this during a two-day visit to the Edo State Internal Revenue Service (EIRS).

Receiving the tax experts in Benin City, EIRS Executive Chairman, Igbinidu Inneh, gave insights on the workings of Edo Revenue Administration Service (ERAS), saying, the government has deployed big data to optimise its tax administration

According to him, “The ERAS is a technological process, which birthed, owing to the need to efficiently manage revenue administration using technology.

“It is a system that seamlessly warehouses different revenue solutions across different revenue streams that help to capture, profile, assess, notify, and enable an individual or corporate taxpayers to settle taxes.”

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Inneh noted that ERAS, which is ranked as one of the best in sub-Saharan Africa, is a hundred per cent intellectual property of the EIRS, built to manage and automate the entire revenue generation spectrum in Edo State.

He added: “The IT solution, which has further improved IGR performance, consists of a central, revenue, and mobile system, all geared to ease data tracking, tax settlement, electronic treasury receipting, and MDAs certificate approvals.”

On his part, Enikuomehin who described the ERAS as top-notch said he led his team to Edo to understudy the seamless EIRS revenue administration system.

Enikuomehin said members of his team were in the state to gain knowledge from the EIRS blueprint on tax reforms and management, with plans to create “our own seamless revenue administration.”