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Buhari IIExecutive Chairman, Nigeria Revenue Service· 9 December 2019 — 12 September 2023

Muhammad Nami

Drove the Finance Acts 2019–2022 implementation. Tax revenue from ₦4.9tn (2019) to ₦10.1tn (2022).

The record

Muhammad Nami presided over a substantial expansion of federal tax collections — driven by VAT increase from 5% to 7.5% (Finance Act 2019), the digital-services tax, and the deployment of the TaxPro-Max platform.

Sources

  • FIRS — Annual Tax Collection Reports, 2019–2022
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.