September 5, 2019

Kenya plans to tax OTT services like Youtube, Netflix

Kenya’s Information Communication and Technology (ICT) ministry is working on completing a new tax scheme. This framework, reports say, will be used to tax foreign online streaming media services such as YouTube and Netflix. The over-the-top services (OTT) will soon be required to declare the incomes they derive from Kenyan consumers. OTT services include all […]

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Stakeholders say voluntary tax payment key to quality public education

Increase budgetary allocation to education and improve the quality of the sector, government has been urged to sensitise all taxable adults on voluntary payment of Tax.   This was the submission of participants at the end of a two-day stakeholders Forum on Tax and Gender Responsive Schools in Lagos organised by Human Development Initiative (HDI), Norad

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Tax: Why FIRS boss Babatunde Fowler was queried

The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, was queried by President Muhammadu Buhari over variances between budgeted collections and actual collections between 2015 and 2018. Multiple presidency sources confirmed the authenticity of the query dated August 8, 2019, and signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam

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Pay tax, end poverty in Oyo —Makinde

The Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, has pleaded for the support of different stakeholders operating in the state on adequate deductions, prompt remittance of taxes and other levies to fulfil his promises on provision of social amenities, enduring infrastructure, regular payment of government obligations and other amenities. Makinde stated this during a one-day sensitisation

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Fowler Gets Monday Deadline To Explain Discrepancies In Tax Collections

President Muhammadu Buhari has given the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Babatunde Fowler till Monday to explain the gaps in tax collections between 2015 and 2018.  Fowler, whose top echelon of his FIRS has in recent times, been under the searchlight of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) for duty

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