Nigeria is seen generating $13 billion in additional tax revenue if she could digitalise her identification programmes. This is according to a new McKinsey Global Institute report, which claims that high adoption of digital ID with the right principles can help unlock 3 percent economic value equivalent of GDP in advanced economies and as much …
Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama has said his administration will scrap the luxury vehicle tax if it comes to power; if the Akufo-Addo government fails to do so. Describing the levy as an ill-conceived one, he said its introduction has overburdened the ordinary commercial driver whose vehicle possesses the …
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun the recovery of funds from some staff of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), who have agreed to return illicit Duty Tour Allowances (DTA) paid into their accounts by the management of the FIRS. Daily Trust learnt yesterday from sources familiar with the investigation that EFCC …
The Tax Appeal Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed May 14 for definite hearing in a suit filed by a company, “M FIFTEEN” Consultants against the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The company also dragged the FIRS, before the Tax Appeal Tribunal sitting in Abuja over alleged double taxation. Also joined in the suit …
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The controversies dogging the nation’s tax reforms, now with Value Added Tax (VAT) regime, may not achieve anything positive unless a holistic approach is taken and urgently, tax professionals have said. The top tax administrators, at the sensitization seminar on proposed VAT increase and the non-assented housing fund bill, organized by the Chartered Institute of …
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Introduction In August 2018, taxpayers were awakened to sudden freezing of their bank accounts for alleged non-payment of taxes and this marked the beginning of an “account- freezing” operation by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Many taxpayers who contemplated challenging the powers of the tax authority to direct the freezing of their bank accounts …
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