•Prostitutes A Civil Society Organisation, under the umbrella of the Civil Society Organisations on Community Advancement and Humanitarian Empowerment Initiative (CSCHEI), has faulted the Tinubu-led federal government’s new tax policy requiring sex workers and individuals engaged in illicit activities to pay taxes. CSCHEI, a UN-recognised plat...
•Naira and Dollar notes A former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof Bolaji Owasanoye (SAN), has disclosed that some companies in Nigeria inflate operating expenses and credit repayments to evade tax. Owasanoye stated this today on Channels Television. According to him, illicit finan...
Google, Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Microsoft and social media platforms operating in Nigeria have paid N2.55 trillion ($1.5 billion) in taxes to FG in the first six months of 2024, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said. NITDA in a statement today said data from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS...
•Senator Sani Musa Senator representing Niger East and Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Sani Musa has said increase in taxes would not necessarily drive economic growth. The lawmaker whose Committee has been saddled with the responsibility to look at the Tax Reform Bills by the Red Chamber made the declaration today while speaking with j...
•Max Air The Kano State Internal Revenue Service today, sealed three companies including the Head office of Max Air Limited located in Kano over non-payment of liability tax for five years (2012 to 2017). Two other companies shut down including the Head office of Dantata and Sawoe Construction Company located along the Kano-Zaria road for [&he...
•Bandits Armed bandits operating in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State have reportedly commenced the collection of taxes and levies from residents of Torough and nearby communities. It was gathered, yesterday, from a resident of the community, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being attacked, that the gangs introduced a le...
•Francis Nwifuru Ebonyi State governor, Chief Francis Nwifuru, yesterday, warned revenue officers in the state against collecting taxes from petty traders and indigent ones in the state. He said it was inhuman to tax vegetable sellers and other petty traders in the state, reports Daily Sun. The governor stated this during the swearing-in of me...
Lately, the Nigerian media landscape has witnessed an upsurge in a campaign led by Olufemi Akinbode and his Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Group (CAPPA). Their mission revolves around advocating for an increase in the current 10 naira per litre tax on sweetened beverages, as stipulated in the 2021 Finance Act, to 30 naira. T...
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