The Technical Committee of the National Tax Policy Implementation Committee will soon present a bill to the Minister of Finance and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, that will harmonise all taxes to enhance ease of doing business in the country. The Deputy Chairman of the committee, Dr Bode Oyetunde, said this during the second meeting […]
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The President and Vice Chancellor of Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo in Ogun State, Prof Tayo Ademola, on Tuesday, appealed to the federal and state governments to relax taxes on private universities in Nigeria . Ademola lamented that the taxes levelled on private universities were becoming unbearable. The VC stated this during a press briefing held at
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said it would impose Value Added Tax (VAT) on online transactions, local and international, with effective from January 2020. The Executive Chairman of FIRS, Mr Tunde Fowler, disclosed this at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) Technical Workshop on VAT on Monday August 26, 2019 in Abuja. He
Within an eight-year period covering 2011 and 2018, the country earned a total of N35.56tn as tax revenue, statistics obtained from the Federal Inland Revenue Service have revealed. An analysis of the tax revenue statistics showed that the tax income was earned in two major tax revenue items. They are oil tax which is generated
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The Zamfara State Government has approved the appointment of Hajiya Lubabatu Isa Mayana as the new Executive Chairman of the Zamfara State Internal Revenue Service (ZIRS). The appointment, according to a statement, took effect on August 16, 2019, replacing Ibrahim Abdulnasir. Hajiya Lubabatu who is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria
Polaris Bank Limited, which was formerly operating as Skye Bank Plc, has won its case against the Abia State Government over a N1.528 billion tax assessment disagreement brought before a tax appeal tribunal sitting in Enugu State. The lender had taken the Abia State Board of Internal Revenue to the tribunal, seeking to determine if
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The Ondo State Government has urged it’s citizens to make tax payment a priority for it to improve on the infrastructural projects in the state. Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu stated this while declaring open a one day sensitization programme organized by the Ondo State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS) in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Taxation
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Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published Nigeria’s H1-19 Value Added Tax (VAT) report. According to the report, VAT revenue rose 12.0% y/y to N600.9bn, in H1-19. This as the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) continues to double efforts to increase tax revenue, amid FG’s dwindling and volatile oil revenue. Recent comments from the
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The culprits, Atime Orlu, Terhide Kumbul and Mzehemen Jaga were arrested at Luga in Gboko, near Tyogbenda Msa, in Ushongo and Awajir in Konshisha respectively. In furtherance of its resolve to eradicate illegal tax points, the Benue state special taskforce on illegal road blocks in collaboration with the Benue state police command, has arrested three
Traders at the Abakpa Main Market, Abakaliki, have denied the allegation of tax evasion of levelled against them by officials of the Ebonyi State Government as the reason for invading the market and compliance. The traders spoke at a press conference in Abakaliki on Friday and urged the public to discountenance the allegation of tax
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