How to Check Your TIN (Tax Identification Number).
The Tax Identification Number (TIN) is a unique identifier for an individual or a company for the specific purpose of tax remittance and it is issued by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Finance Acts makes it mandatory for Tax Identification Number (TIN).
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has created a way to check Your TIN. To check Your TIN, please use the process listed below

How to Check Your TIN for Individual Taxpayer
Method One
Visit the Website FIRS TIN VERIFICATION SYSTEM
You can search using three methods
Search Using TIN
- Select Tax Identification Number on the Select Search Criteria Dropdown list below
- Input your TIN (FIRS or JTB TIN) in the Search value field and click on the search button
Search Using Reg. Number
- Select RC/BN on the Select Search Criteria Dropdown list below
- Input your Registration Number in the Search value field and click on the search button
Search Using Phone Number
- Select Phone Number on the Select Search Criteria Dropdown list below
- Input your Phone Number in the Search value field and click on the search button
How to Check Your TIN for Individual Taxpayer
Method Two
Visit the Website TIN Registration Search Panel
- Step 1: Select your Date of Birth.
- Step 2:Select your preferred search criteria from the Select Criteria Dropdown-TIN or NIN or BVN or Registered Phone Number
- Step 3: Provide the appropriate value (Either NIN or BVN) based on the search criteria in Step 2 above
- Step 4. Confirm you are not a robot by checking the reCAPTCHA Box
- Step 5: Click the Search button
How to Check Your TIN for Non Individual Taxpayer
Visit the Website TIN Registration Search Panel
- Step 1: Select the Organization’s Date of Incorporation
- Step 2: Select your preferred search criteria from the Select Criteria Dropdown-TIN or CAC registration Number or Registered Phone Number. CAC registration number should be typed in this format: BN1234 or IT1234 or RC1234.
- Step 3: Provide the appropriate value based on the search criteria in Step 2 above.
- Step 4: Confirm you are not a robot by checking the reCAPTCHA Box.
- Step 5: Click the Search button.
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Hope with this, you have learnt How to Check Your TIN (Tax Identification Number)..
Please share and like below, also comment below for any problem faced or encountered.
Thanks for this informative post! I found the steps to check my TIN really helpful. It’s great to have a clear guide to ensure all my tax information is accurate.
Great post! I found the step-by-step guide really helpful. It’s always a bit confusing to find your TIN, but this made it so much easier. Thanks for sharing!
I submitted my tin number for verification at the FIRS office till now,nothing has been done about it.
Kindly escalate it for me. Ugee Bakes Farmfall
Please kindly contact the FIRS branch close to You.
I need my tax number
Please use the guide
I need my tax id number
Please follow the procedure. Thanks
It is not working. Every person here is saying the same thing that their tin was not found.
That means the direction given was totally wrong
Please will check and update tutorial
Please recheck using Method one
I have not been able to use the site to generate my tax ID it kept saying tax ID not found and that I should use other means
I FORGOT MY TIN NUMBER
Please recheck using Method one
I have entered my Tin number, my date of birth but no result was no record.
Please recheck using Method one
I have entered my Tin number, my date of birth but no result was no record..
i forgot my tin number
Please recheck using Method one
I forget my tin, how would I get it back
I forgot my tin, how do i know it?
Please recheck using Method one
THIS DIDNT PROVIDE THE TIN VERIFICATION PRINTOUT I WANT. NOTHING IS COMING OUT
Need to create my tax id number the site did not open.please assit.
Relay TIN related issues to 08068265893. He’ll help out.
Please i registered for TIN they gave me request id but i have not received the TIN, The request id is 6401498961.
Please assist me.
Thanks.
Pls, I need my TIN number
Thank you.
Good evening.I have tried all the given directives it has been redirecting me to a nearby FIRS office.I don’t have time to be looking for firs office.kindly guide me better.The available one has been collecting 5000# for the service. Is there no any other way.
Thanks
Please have been trying to get my tin number but it saying record not found
That is the only method available, unless you visit the FIRS Office close to you
What do I out in the “search value?”
BVN, NIN or any you choose
Please help me I forgot my Tin number
Please follow the process in the article. Thanks
Was trying to get my TIN with the link and an error popped up that my bvn is already registered.Pls how do I get back the TIN.
Thanks
Please follow the process and you can try again.
Was trying to get my TIN with the link and an error popped up that my bvn is already registered.Pls how to I get back the TIN.
Thanks
Please I forget my Tin number.
Please use process in article to retrieve it. Thanks
PLEASE
OCTOBER 21, 1994
Do not know my tin
Please follow the process in article
Goodday, I could not retrieve my TIN because I no longer use my email and phone no I registered with.
Kindly assist on how I can retrieve my TIN, thanks
Please visit a FIRS branch to assist
Thanks this was helpful. I was able to download a jtb certificate . However, i need to know of Jtb tin is different from firs tin? Thanks
You are welcome, the platform was created by them
I forgot my tin no
Please follow the process in the article to retrieve it. Thanks
Does the “value” mean my TIN number if I will choose “Tax Identification Number” for step number 2?
I didn’t get any answer…
It means enter your NIN or BVN
i forgot my tin #
i’m looking for my tin
i forgot my tin
Useless instructions, I wonder if anything works under Nigerian government, especially whatever is handle by public officers called “evil servants”…. Pls you guys should stop misleading people with ur senseless directives. Fools!
Hi, the above inscripted article on how to retrieve TIN is not helpful at all, i’m unable to get my TIN since the day of registration.
Please where are you facing error?
What value should I enter in the 3rd section
Enter the value as prescribed during registration. Thanks
Rubbish direction,, I ve not seen my tin number
Please where are you facing any issue.
As a member of Nigeria police force I need to know my tax identification number
Please follow the guidelines in the article. Thanks
Good day pls I want to know my TIN number…
Please follow the guideline above and surely you will get it. Thanks
Please I will like to know howm important TIN to nigerians
It determines the number, just like account number in which your tax is paid into. Thanks
It is quite important
how to verify my TIN number is registered
This is for FIRS
Trying to get my tin but it’s not working even though I followed the steps provided. It saysvit cannot be found
Please do retry. Thanks
I forgot my tin, how do I get it without visiting SARS?
Please use the process in the article. Thanks
I rgot my tax number how do I get it without going to SARS?
Please use the process in the article. Thanks
Forgot my tin number
Please follow the process above. Thanks
Yes am forgetting my tin number
See my tin number
I have not been helped,i have not been shown my TIN yet i registered.I have indicated my date of birth,the search criteria and the search value
Did you click to search and you couldn’t get your TIN?
I want to get my tin number
Please follow the guide on the article. Thanks