A Deep Review Of Delta State Board Of Internal Revenue Boss

The Executive Chairman Delta State Board of Internal Revenue Sir Monday John Onyeme, a man of excellent character, a Chartered Accountant per excellence, a Scholar and a Tax Administrator
who is highly regarded as a thoroughbred professional, intellectual luminary and large-hearted philanthropist whose revolution in terms of revenue generation at the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue deserves to be commended.

The Story of Onyeme is an exploration into a world of excellence as his impressive credentials bear an eloquent testimony of a man who Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State appointed as the Executive Chairman of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue.

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Onyeme, a man with a rich working experience whose sterling qualities has become too obvious to be suppressed. In his bid to serve the state and his commitment towards the Smart Agenda was appointed the Chairman, Delta State Board of Internal Revenue.

When he resumed duty as the Executive Chairman of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue 30th September, 2015, the first thing he did was to organize a strategic retreat at Songhai-Amukpe-Sapele to prepare his team for the task ahead. Although overwhelming it seem at the beginning, Onyeme has been able to bring to bear his over 25 years experience as an Accountant of high repute .

 Under his leadership, the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue has been revamped, redesigned and repacked to meet the need of the Delta State Government. He organized the “Day of Glamour and Civic Responsibility” in Asaba to create greater awareness on citizens’ responsibility to pay tax, in conjunction with the entertainment industry in Asaba and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), thus, strengthening relationship with the growing entertainment industry In Asaba with a view to greater tax compliance.

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When oil prices plummeted to the lowest level . Allocation to States from the federal account have nosedived as the Nation experience recession and the combination of Accountability and transparency which Onyeme impacted repositioned the Board towards increasing revenue to support the SMART Agenda of the Okowa's led administration.

During the thick era of recession, Onyeme was at all time up and doing looking deeply inward, developing productive strategies, monitoring the effects of the recession and the possibilities of obeying the tax laws by taxpayers.

 Indeed he strengthened collaboration with tax and revenue stakeholders, formal, informal, individual and corporate tax payers in the state towards total tax compliance as well as easy and convenient tax payment and collection systems. So far he has performed exceedingly well and in keeping with his character of strict accountability and transparency in leadership, he has recorded huge successes in boosting the Internally Generated Revenue of the State, despite the facts that he has set new records in revenue generation since the existence of the Board, Onyeme's humble lifestyle believes that there is still much more to be done.
According to Onyeme, taxation remains the key to democratic sustainability and impactful economic development which he said is in line with the Smart/Stronger Delta Agenda of Dr Ifeanyi Okowa's led administration. He maintained that Increasing IGR is undoubtedly the way forward for Government to chest the financial implications of Projects that are beneficial to the People. He admonished Deltans to support the Delta State Government by paying their taxes regularly in other for Infrastructural Development to continually hits all nooks and crannies of the State.

 The continuity in office for second tenure as Chairman Delta State Board of Internal Revenue did not come as a surprise to many Deltans, considering the uncommon and milestone achievements in terms of revenue generation, policies and programmes by Sir Monday John Onyeme in consolidating the revenue generation capacity of the state government through an efficient tax collection regime. Having proved his mettle in revenue generation in his first term, Governor Okowa, in his magnanimity, did not change the winning DBIR team led by Sir Monday John Onyeme.

 He has collaborated with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on motor vehicle licencing, driver’s license and revenue-related matters as well as security agencies and bodies in recognition of security as a prerequisite for growth of businesses and industries.

 He has also embarked on a tough compliance exercise on tax evaders and defaulters in various establishments, individual and corporate bodies across the state. Sir Monday John Onyeme has expanded the state tax net, blocked leakages and proved that the state can realize its taxes by raking in needed revenue to help drive the present Stronger Delta Agenda of the Okowa's led administration.

 As the state, the nation and the world at large are faced with the present pandemic that has eaten deep into the fabrics of the economy, the Board under the leadership of Sir Monday John Onyeme whose effort is to allow businesses to fully commence business activities after the compulsory lockdown and to cushioned the effects of the Coronavirus on businesses has doles out Palliatives to Private Primary And Secondary Schools, Eateries and Hotels in respects to Penalties and Interest from 2010 to 2019 and has also extended the deadline for the filing of Annual Tax Returns (Employees And Self Employed Persons) for the year 2020 from 31st March to 30th June 2020. Sir Monday John Onyeme, a scholar and tax administrator has showcased capacity and has demonstrated readiness to ensure continous Increase of the Internally Generated Revenue, he has beamed the revenue searchlights on truck boats, haulage, and other oil and gas, marine related businesses for an Optimal Increase of the Internally Generated Revenue Of the State.

Onyeme's wealth of experience and vast understanding of new and modern frontiers of economic opportunities in terms of wealth creation, knowledge economy, and revenue generation has translated into huge tax dividends to leapfrog Delta State into an emerging high growth economy as enshrined in the Stronger Delta Agenda of the Okowa's led administration.

The Okowa's led administration has done greatly towards putting taxation in its proper place in our State economy which are visible in the eyes of Deltans. The Delta State Board of Internal Revenue under the leadership of Sir Monday John Onyeme has embraced a productive pathway that will be unveil soon for an Optimal Increase of the State IGR, indeed the Onyeme's leadership as Chairman Delta State Board of Internal has recorded and still recording tremendous successes in terms of IGR generation

Source: Upright Bobby Chukwuji