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Retrospective Tax Enforcement and Perceived Revenue-Generation Effectiveness of Back-Duty Audits in Southwest Nigeria
This study isolates the role of back-duty audit as a retrospective enforcement mechanism for revenue recovery in Southwest Nigeria. It draws on a 2025 survey of 374 employees of federal and state revenue authorities across Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ekiti States. Still, it develops a scope distinct from broader tax-audit analyses by focusing on historical non-compliance, random and regular retrospective assessment, and the recovery implications of deeper audit intensity. Item-level descriptive statistics show the strongest support for organising random back-duty assessments (mean = 3.232…
