Nigeria, Aug. 15 -- The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has announced that over 1,000 large taxpayers have successfully onboarded and commenced integration on its new electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) platform.

However, the agency said more than 4,000 large taxpayers still need to complete the onboarding process.

The Project Manager for the FIRS e-invoicing implementation, Mohammed Bawa, disclosed this while speaking at a post-go-live e-invoice workshop for stakeholders on Thursday.

"Between the 1st of August to date, we have over 1,000 large taxpayers that have onboarded and commenced their integration, and we still have over 4,000 to do the onboarding.

"So, FIRS felt it necessary to give an extension, an opportunity to those ...