The Kwara Internal Revenue Service has compensated the winner of its inspired 2021 Tax Club Quiz Competition for secondary schools in the state with N2.5 million.
The winner of the competition, Stepping Stone College, Ilorin, was presented the cheque by the Deputy Governor of the state, Mr. Kayode Alabi, at the grand finale of the competition held at the Banquet Hall, Ilorin, on Thursday.
This is contained in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday by the Executive Chairman of the revenue service, Mrs. Shade Omoniyi.
According to the statement, the winner, stepping stone college emerged first position with 26 points and additional six points, beating Eucharistic Heart of Jesus School, Ilorin that also made 26 points and additional two points at the last phase of the encounter.
The Eucharistic school won second position while Government Secondary School, Ilesha-Baruba, Baruten Local Government Area of the state, claimed the third position with 24 points and the Apostolic Church School came fourth with 22 points.
Alabi, who represented Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the event, congratulated the winner for doing themselves and the schools they represented proud.
The governor specially rejoiced with the impressive showing of Government Secondary School, Ilesha-Baruba, saying that it is a pointer to the fruit of restoration agenda of the government in public schools.
The executive chairman of Kwara revenue agency said the motive of the competition among secondary school students was to inculcate importance of taxation in them at the tender age.
0moniyi stressed that the competition was conceived for participants to step down the advocacy on taxation, especially amongst their parents and guardians so as to fulfill their tax obligation.
She further explained that the competition would also help stimulate the thought processes of the participants and their peers in their academic pursuits.
“Most times, when we talk to taxpayers about their responsibilities, they always claim that they are not even aware that they are supposed to do some of these things.
“What we are trying to do is to change the DNA of our people generally, right from the grassroot and from the younger ones so that by the time they grow up, we wouldn’t be having to go through what we are going through now.
“Advocacy has been taken to the secondary schools and we expect that the students would also use this medium to speak about the advocacy with their parents and educate them better.
“While we are identifying good students, we are also using it as a form of advocacy to push the narration as far as taxation is concerned,” she said. (NAN).
