Training Topic: Tax Debt Management
Participants: Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)
The session was designed to strengthen practical capabilities in identifying, managing, and recovering tax liabilities in a way that improves compliance outcomes while maintaining fairness, process discipline, and institutional credibility.
Key areas I covered included:
Tax debt lifecycle: identification, validation, classification, and prioritisation
Building effective debt recovery strategies (soft recovery to enforcement pathways)
Taxpayer engagement: communication, negotiation, and payment arrangement structures
Dispute management basics and documentation discipline to reduce leakage and delays
Performance tracking: recovery KPIs, ageing analysis, and portfolio reporting
The training strengthened participants’ ability to manage debt portfolios more systematically, improve recovery outcomes, and support a more consistent compliance and enforcement framework.
