A tax expert and partner with Price water Cooper (PwC), Taiwo Oyedele, has said the current tax regime in Nigeria does not encourage informal businesses aspiring to formalize their operations. Oyedele spoke during a panel discussion at the Special Policy Dialogue Colloquium, entitled “Policy Change – The Enabler of Sustainable Growth”, organized by the Financial […]

The Executive Director, Rural Women and Youth Development (RUWOYD), Sokoto State, Abudu Yusufu has urged governments to institute effective tax structures to increase the size of national budgets by raising corporate tax payment. Speaking at a Stakeholders Forum on Tax and Gender-Responsive schools under the ActionAid initiative of ‘Tax Justice & Gender Responsive Public Services

The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and Chairman of the Joint Tax Board (JTB), Tunde Fowler, has inaugurated a team of tax experts charged with the responsibility for implementation of the National Tax Policy. He also inaugurated a Technical Tax Policy Drafting Committee which began a workshop on National Tax Policy

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has directed the newly inaugurated Technical Tax Policy Drafting Committee to harmonise the various tax and excise law reforms in the proposed Finance Bill. The FIRS Chairman, Mr Babatunde Fowler, gave the directive at the inaugural meeting of the Reconstituted National Tax Policy Implementation Committee (NTPIC) in Abuja on

Abia State Deputy Governor, Rt Hon Ude Oko Chukwu, has called on citizens and entrepreneurs to invest in the state and enjoy tax waivers for a minimum of five years. Sir Oko Chukwu who made the call at Afaraukwu Umuahia during the opening of a mini residential estate built by a Lagos based security consultant,

The acting Chairman of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Nasarawa State chapter, Mr Alfred Alogana, has expressed the body’s displeasure over the unfavourable tax regime in the state. He made special reference to the Gaseous Emission Tax, which manufacturers and producers of goods are subjected to by various agencies of the state government. Alogana stated