Nigerian airlines have expressed their misgivings over Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) delay to implement President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order on the removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) from all forms of shared transportation taxes paid by local operating in the country. This comes as the Minister of State for Aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika, announced that […]
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Stakeholders have rejected plans by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to tax online transactions, saying it will amount to double taxation. Chairman of FIRS, Mr Babatunde Fowler, yesterday, while speaking in New York, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the agency will soon begin collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) on online
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The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has begun the distribution of its stamp and seal to its certified members, just few months after it emerged that tax returns without the institute’s authentications would be rejected. The presentation marks the full kick off of the implementation of the new directive that all tax returns
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service generated N1.5 trillion revenue in the first quarter of 2019, according to its Chairman, Mr Babatunde Fowler. Fowler disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in New York at the weekend. He said the amount included revenue from non-oil taxes that were 11 per cent higher than what the
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service has said that it will soon begin the collection of Value Added Tax on online transactions. The Chairman of the agency, Mr Babatunde Fowler, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in New York on Saturday. Fowler said, “Soon, we will ask banks to impose
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The European Union on Friday removed the British overseas territory of Bermuda, the Dutch Caribbean Island of Aruba and Barbados from the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens. The three islands were added to the list in March as they had failed for months to change their tax rules, which the EU deemed at risk of
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Nigerian airlines have called on the federal government to review its tax policy for the sector as well as the cost of aviation fuel, in order to reduce cost of flight operations and ensure they remain in business. The operators said many airlines that went under in the last few years were due to high
The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS, Mr Babatunde Fowler, has blamed ignorance of taxation rules for the incessant controversies between taxpayers and government. Fowler, expressed this view at the KPMG Tax Breakfast Seminar in Lagos, with theme, ‘Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution’. He counselled taxpayers to consult experts in tax issues to avoid
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A major national lesson for the government and citizens of Nigeria over the last five years is that oil revenue, on which the country is almost totally dependent to fund development, cannot be relied upon to take the country to its desired developmental destination. For decades, local and international economic observers had cautioned against near-total
The Nigeria Economic Summit Group has said that about 70 per cent of Nigerians believe that it is not wrong to pay tax. The NESG disclosed this during its Fiscal Policy Roundtable event in Lagos, while launching its Citizen Perception Report, a research advocating better tax system in the country. The Fiscal Policy Roundtable co-chair,
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