The Kwara State Inside Income Service (KW-IRS), on Friday, Could 17, 2024, closed its registration portal for the 2024 version of its annual Tax Membership Quiz Competitors for Secondary Colleges within the state.
In accordance with a press launch posted on its social media handles, the State’s income technology company disclosed that 154 secondary faculties registered for the competitors this 12 months.
The registration portal was opened on Monday, twenty second April 2024.
This 12 months’s competitors guarantees to be extra enriching and extra helpful to the collaborating faculties as a digital dimension has been launched to the annual occasion.
In a transfer which educators described as a significant proper step in making ready the scholars for contemporary studying, the tax assortment company famous that the preliminary stage of the competitors will maintain between Monday, June 24 and Friday, June 28, as Laptop Based mostly Check (CBT) will probably be written by college students from the 154 faculties of their respective faculties throughout the three Senatorial Districts within the State.
The preliminary stage will produce 12 certified faculties (4 from every Senatorial District of the State) that can then take part within the semi-final stage.
The semi-final stage, similar to the preliminary one, will even be a computer-based take a look at to be held within the contributors’ respective faculties between Monday, and Friday, October 7 and 11, 2024.
The six greatest college students that emerge from this stage will go forward to slug it out on the Grand Finale.
The Grand Finale, the place the Grand Prize and different comfort prizes will probably be awarded, will maintain with a lot funfair at Ilorin on Thursday, November 7, 2024.
The very best general profitable Secondary College will go residence with the Star Prize of N2.5 million, the primary runner-up goes residence with N1.5 million whereas the second runner-up goes residence with N1 million.
Additionally, lecturers of the profitable faculty, in addition to these of the primary and second runner-ups will even be rewarded with money prizes.
In the identical vein, the collaborating college students of the profitable faculty and the second and third greatest faculties, on securing admission into larger establishments, will probably be assisted with scholarship funds.
The Tax Quiz Competitors is organised yearly by the KW-IRS in collaboration with the Ministry of Schooling and Human Capital Growth with the purpose of “nurturing faculty youngsters to have a transparent understanding of the function of tax within the improvement of an economic system and rising to develop into tax-compliant residents.”
The tax competiton, over time, has helped to convey out youths’ hidden tutorial potential and abilities and has additionally helped to showcase Secondary Colleges with distinctive performances within the coaching of their college students.