The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) says it is currently optimizing its payment procedures for utmost efficiency and taxpayers’ convenience, reiterating that by the August 1, 2022 cutoff date, eTax would become the only authorized channel to generate bill reference for tax payments and other tax-related transactions in Lagos State.

The Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, Ayodele Subair, in a statement issued on Sunday, said the agency, as part of its digitalization process, is discontinuing all previously used bill references effective from August 1st, 2022.

Consequently, a statement by Monsurat Amasa,Head, Corporate Communications at LIRS, quoted the Chairman as saying only the Enterprise Tax Solutions (eTax), generated bill references will be acceptable for tax payments.

The eTax platform which went live in October 2019, was launched by LIRS to engender seamless tax operations and reduce compliance costs to taxpayers. Since its launch, eTax has improved the effectiveness of tax administration in Lagos State.

Subair added that the eTax was built as a one-stop shop for all tax transactions, and it is in the same spirit that the generation of bill references, required for all tax payments is now exclusive to the eTax platform.