The Northern Governors’ Forum on Monday rejected the Value Added Tax (VAT) law signed recently by Lagos and River State governments. The governors also described as...
The discourse on fiscal federalism and states’ right to collect Value-Added Tax (VAT) continues as the Northern Governors’ Forum is scheduled to meet later today (Monday)...
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) and the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, have weighed in...
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has knocked those criticising the move by the state government to challenge the legality of the Federal Inland Revenue...
The Nigerian Organized Private Sector (OPS) has requested clarification on who should get the August Value Added Tax (VAT) collected by businesses, which is due for...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has called on Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to register for tax purposes and obtain Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), threatening to...
The Southern Governors’ Forum on Thursday declared support for the collection of the Value Added Tax (VAT) by states. The forum also charged governors to expedite...
[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Female” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Over the last two decades, 36 states, including the federal capital, have shared about N4.63 trillion in value added...
The Rivers State government on Tuesday dragged the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to the Supreme Court over the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT). In...
A bill seeking to empower the Ogun State government on the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) on certain goods and services scaled second reading at...
The joint suit by Lagos and Rivers States to challenge the collection of Value Added Tax by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has resulted in...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu may have walked their way into the good books of Nigerians on social media...
The Lagos State Government has applied to be joined as a co-respondent in the appeal filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) against the judgement...
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday joined his Rivers State counterpart, Governor Nyesom Wike, to sign the State’s Value Added Tax Bill into...
The Conference of 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Lagos State has requested an equal sharing formula with the state in the...
As the debate of the collection of VAT by states rages, the Kano State Hisbah Board says it has confiscated two vehicles loaded with 5,760 cartons...
The governor of Rivers State has threatened that the state government will shut down the premises of any bank or business organisation in the state that...
Justice Stephen Dalyop Pam of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, on Monday dismissed an application filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), seeking to...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday signed into law the bill on Value Added Tax (VAT) collection in the state. Wike signed the recently...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said it will appeal the judgement barring it from collecting Value Added Tax (VAT) in Rivers State. The tax...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has been ordered to stop demanding and collecting value-added tax (VAT) and personal income tax (PIT) across Nigeria. A federal...
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Friday shared a total of N733.095 billion as June 2021 Federation Account Revenue to the Federal, States and Local...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday revealed that the total sum of N496.39 billion was generated as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the first...
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared N640.310 billion to the three tiers of government for January. Mr Hassan Dodo, the Director of Information, Ministry...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that Nigeria was only able to meet 75 percent of its target Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue in...
Nigeria made about N14.43 trillion from Value Added Tax (VAT) and Company Income Tax (CIT) in six years from 2015-2020, an analysis of data published today...
In 2020, Nigeria spent N3.2 trillion paying its debt. The Minister for Finance, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this during a public presentation of the 2021 FGN approved...
The Federal Government has made plans to replace the collection of stamp duty with an electronic bank transfer after the Court of Appeal outlawed the duty...
The Federal Government has suspended the deduction of 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on airfares and other air transport services with effect from January...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you 1. 617 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria’s total to 72,757. Deaths, recoveries updated Nigeria on Saturday...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Friday proposed a hike in Value Added Tax (VAT) and excise duties for Nigeria, suggesting that the implementation of the recommendations...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday Nigeria generated a total sum of N424.71billion as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the third quarter of...
The Value Added Tax (VAT) amassed by the Nigerian government in the first half of 2020 totalled N651.77 billion, 8.5% higher than the figure for the...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday N338.94 billion was generated as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the first quarter of this year. The...
Fiscal authorities in Nigeria amassed Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue totalling N338.94 billion in the first quarter of this year, reflecting a 9.87 per cent leap...
The Association of Private Transport Companies of Nigeria (APTCON) has countered the demand of airline operators for financial intervention with a demand of their own, stating...
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, said on Thursday the Value Added Tax (VAT) does not fall under the ministry’s purview...
Nigeria lost $408.28 million (about N148.002 billion) in capital flight arising from plunge in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) between June and September 2019 owing to insecurity...
Economic policies instituted by the Nigerian government are fighting back like a cornered fox. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday released its Consumer Price...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Thursday contradicted the position of the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, saying the...
The Federal Government has started the enforcement of the 7.5 per cent increase of Value Added Tax (VAT) in accordance with the recently signed Finance Bill...
The signing of the Finance Bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday has begun to have sweeping reverberations in the public space as the Organised Private...
The joint Conference Committee on the Finance Bill of the National Assembly has adopted the House of Representatives version of Finance Bill. The Finance Bill seeks...
Contractors working on federal roads in the country are owed N306 billion by the Federal Government, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has...
Owing to perceived implications of the proposed Finance Bill on the economy, the Organised Private Sector (OPS) is prodding President Muhammadu Buhari to decline his approval...
The House of Representatives Thursday passed the 2019 Finance Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari after it passed its third reading. The Senate had earlier passed...
A former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, has said that Nigerians would be willing to pay more tax if they can...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has described the 2020 Budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari as a pro-people...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursdays continued the debate on the general principles of the 2020 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised concerns about the proposed increase in Value Added Tax (VAT), of which the proposed 2020 budget was partly predicated...
