The Court of Appeal (COA) in its judgement delivered today Monday, 24 June 2019 upheld the decision of the Federal High Court (FHC) in Vodacom Business Nigeria Limited (“Vodacom”) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on the applicability of value added tax (VAT) to satellite-network bandwidth capacities provided to Vodacom outside Nigeria by New Skies […]
A total of 42 tax-related disputes worth N288.1bn have been resolved by the Tax Appeal Tribunal within a period of eight months. The Coordinating Secretary of TAT, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, gave the figure in Abuja at the opening session of a two-day retreat on effective and efficient tax dispute resolution in Nigeria. Apart from the
More than one year after the pronouncement for Value Added Tax to be removed from air transport, the Federal Government has failed to implement the order. Findings by our correspondent showed that domestic airlines still pay VAT, charged as five per cent on every flight ticket sold and remitted to the Federal Government. The Media
The Federal Government has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Interbank Settlement System, the National Identity Management Commission to cooperate with the Joint Tax Board in the release of relevant individual records. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo stated this while inaugurating the new National Tax Identification Number Registration System on Monday in Abuja. The News
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A former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, yesterday said the federal government was planning to increase the rate of value-added tax (VAT) to 7.5 per cent from the current five per cent by 2020. This is as the government seeks to shore up falling revenue, according to Bloomberg. Speaking at the Bloomberg Emerging &
The Tax Appeal Tribunal, South East Zone, has said that gratuities are tax exempted under the Personal Income Tax Act. The tribunal made the declaration while delivering judgement in the appeal Nigerian Breweries Plc brought against Abia State Board of Internal Revenue, challenging the decision of the Board to tax gratuities paid to its employees.
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) on 30 May 2019 issued a Notice informing the public of the new Tax Identification Number (TIN) which will be issued to every individual, registered business and incorporated companies. The issuance of the new TIN follows the deployment of a new tax administration system by the LIRS called
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In line with its commitment to deepen the capacity and growth of businesses in Nigeria, particularly the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), First City Monument Bank (FCMB) will on June 26, 2019 host a seminar on tax matters in Lagos. The seminar, tagged, ‘’Tax Enforcement and Implications on Businesses in Nigeria’’, is aimed at
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The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has stated that it has so far recovered the sum of N57.7 billion from Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in its ongoing monitoring and verification exercise on tax collections by the financial institutions. The banks had been contracted by both the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the
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The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has called on state governments to engage in an aggressive taxpayer enlightenment as well as expansion of their tax net to increase their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The call was made following President Muhammadu Buhari’s advice to State Governments to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) in an attempt to
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