The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said it will spend N160 million to sew uniforms for its 850 drivers. Babatunde Fowler, chairman of the agency, disclosed this on Monday while defending their budget at the House of Representatives, noting that the uniforms are part of the efforts to make the drivers fit properly into […]
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Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed: Nigeria’s tax to GDP ratio of 6.1 % believed to be rooted in corruption, says IMF The costs of corruption run deep. Your taxpayer dollars are lost in different ways, siphoned off from schools, roads, and hospitals to line the pockets of people up to no good, the International
The Federal Government says it will grant tax incentives to private companies willing to fund the construction of major road projects in the six geo-political zones of the country. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed said this on Tuesday at the Public Presentation of the Approved 2019 Budget in Abuja. Ahmed, who spoke on
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CASH-STRAPPED councils should consider clobbering Brits with a local income tax to plug their multi-billion pound funding black hole, a respected think-tank today says. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said English town halls have had their funding slashed by a fifth in the past decade. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says local councils will face
The Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group and Oxfam International have urged the federal and state governments to intensify efforts in the collection of taxes from citizens. During a multi-stakeholder dialogue in Lagos, the Program me Officer, Public-Private Sector Transparency and Accountability Officer, Oxfam International, Henry Ushie, said that the government, both at the federal and
The Managing Director of Bet9ja, Ayo Ojuroye, has argued that lottery business can boost Nigeria’s revenue. In a statement made available to newsmen, Ojuroye stated that the Nigerian State is already benefiting from lottery companies through the taxes and other levies paid to the government. To exemplify, he explained that Bet9ja pays all its taxes
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria generated N289.04 billion from value-added Tax (VAT) in the first quarter of 2019, representing a decline N9billion from the N298.01 billion generated in Q4 2018. This is contained in a Sectoral Distribution of VAT report for the first quarter 2019 released by the bureau. This, it said,
A Lagos State Prosecutor, Mrs Y. A. Pitan, has told an Igbosere High Court in Lagos that former Super Eagles captain, Austin Okocha, has not liquidated the alleged tax debt he owed the state. Pitan told Justice Adebayo Akintoye on Tuesday that Okocha had visited the Lagos Internal Revenue Service office but failed to settle
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When the ongoing integration of different biometric databases in Nigeria is completed, it is anticipated that the figure on the taxpayer database will grow to 45 million individuals, inclusive of corporate payers. In essence, the taxpayer database has expanded from 10 million that was inherited by President Buhari in 2015 to 35 million as at
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Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on professional curriculum exchange and membership recognition between the two institutions. The pact will define how CITN and ACCA would collaborate to develop ACCA’s tax and law variants for Nigeria, and the basis
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