The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken an initiative to introduce a mobile application and software, aiming to check cases of tax evasion and increase the number of taxpayers. The revenue-collecting authority thinks launching of the app and software will bring dynamism into the revenue administration, and help bring a large number of eligible

Apple is heading to court next month to fight a 13 billion euro ($14.4 billion) tax bill handed down by the European Union in 2016. Europe’s General Court will hear Apple’s appeal on Sept. 17 and 18, Bloomberg reported Friday. The case relates to the bill that the EU Competition Commission ordered Ireland to recoup

The Director, Entrepreneurship and Skills Development Centre at the University of Lagos, Prof Sunday Adebisi, has urged the Federal Government to give start-ups a five-year tax holiday to enable them to survive. He gave this advice on Thursday while presenting a paper titled, ‘Entrepreneurship Mindset, a Solution to the Unemployment Rate in Nigeria’, during the

Online companies like Facebook, Google and Netflix  have managed to have an edge over how business is done and Africa has been getting the short end of the stick. Is it now time to create an even playing field that gives traditional businesses a chance? In November last year, South Africa broadened its value added