Rev360 did not appear for every taxpayer on the same morning. It arrived in stages, over several months.
Knowing the actual sequence helps explain a lot of the confusion that followed the changeover, including why colleagues at similar businesses sometimes compared completely different login experiences.
The go-live date
The portal's technical go-live was 30 Apr 2026. From that date, the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), formerly FIRS, began moving filers across from TaxPro Max rather than switching every account at once.
If you have not logged in since, our guide to logging in to Rev360 covers what a migrated account needs.
Businesses that filed a return in the weeks right after the go-live date were, in effect, the first real test of the new system, ahead of the public launch that followed.
The rollout order
The NRS rolled Rev360 out to medium and emerging taxpayers first, then government and large taxpayers. Spreading the load this way meant a fault affecting one group would not take the whole system down for everyone at once.
It also explains why two businesses of a similar size can have moved onto Rev360 weeks apart. The order followed taxpayer category, not simply when a business asks to switch.
A medium-sized company and a large one filing side by side could easily have joined in different waves, purely because of which category each was already registered under before the rollout began.
The formal launch event
A public launch event followed in June 2026, held at the NRS's headquarters in Abuja. By the time of that event, the technical rollout had already been running for about six weeks.
The gap between the two dates is normal for a system this size. Going live quietly first, then marking the milestone once real filers have used it without major issues, is a safer order than launching publicly on day one.
It also gave the NRS a genuine number to announce rather than a projection. A launch event held after real taxpayers were already filing carries more weight than one held on the same day the portal switched on.
How many taxpayers came across
The NRS reported over 600,000 taxpayers onboarded by the time of the formal launch. That figure includes moved to Rev360 automatically, with login details sent by email, not only new registrations.
Treat a headline number like this as a snapshot from one point in time rather than a running total, since it will only have grown as later taxpayer groups joined.
It is still a useful sign of scale. A portal carrying that many accounts within months of going live had cleared its first real stress test before most late-joining taxpayers ever logged in.
Why the dates are worth knowing precisely
Beyond satisfying curiosity, knowing the actual go-live and rollout dates matters if you ever need to explain a filing gap to an accountant or an auditor. "The portal had only just gone live for my category" is a very different explanation from "I did not check for two months", and the dates are what let you tell the two apart.
What this means if you have not moved yet
A staged rollout means your own filing category may simply not have come up yet. Before assuming something has gone wrong, check whether your last return on selfservice.nrs.gov.ng logged successfully.
If you are unsure what Rev360 actually offers once you are on it, our walkthrough of what you can do on Rev360 sets out registration, filing, payment and the rest in one place. For the wider changeover this sits inside, see our full account of the tax authority's rename and the NRS and Rev360 hub.