Lagos Revenue House Ready In September – Sanwo-Olu

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday said the iconic Revenue House of the Lagos State Government will be completed by the end of next month, saying the building would be open for use fully by September.

Governor Sanwo-Olu led an on-the-site inspection of the ongoing renovation work at the eight-storey building formerly known as Elephant House, with his Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and some members of the Executive Council members.

The Revenue House is a multi-department office complex being put up to accommodate all revenue-generating agencies of the state government under one roof.

Lagos Inland Revenue Service (LIRS) will be occupying substantial space in the building, while other agencies, including Lagos State Lottery and Gaming Authority, Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA) and Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LAASA) among others will share the rest of the space in the complex.

Keeping the revenue agencies under a roof, Sanwo-Olu said, is an idea to improve their individual capacity for overall efficiency and collective delivery of their mandates.

The governor said the edifice would offer a one-stop-shop revenue service for individuals and organisations paying taxes to the government.

He said, “The importance of this Revenue House is that it houses the significant number of our core revenue-generating agencies, with LIRS being the major occupant of the edifice. The whole idea of putting them in one office complex is for them to share facilities together and improve on their individual capacity.

“More importantly, the single-office complex will offer our citizens and organisations a one-stop shop to come in and complete a lot of statutory transactions in this building, which include licence renewal, issues about vehicles, tenement rate, land assessment and general land administration. This is why I am interested to see how faster we can finish this project.”