Human right lawyers may sue FIRS over plans to freeze tax defaulters’ accounts
There are strong indications that should the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) put paid to its recent threat to freeze accounts of tax defaulters, a set of Human Rights lawyers may approach a court of competent jurisdiction to challenge the…
Like Nigeria, Ghana mulls tax amnesty for eight months in 2018
It was not yet clear if Ghana is drawing inspirations from the success rate so far achieved by the Nigeria’s Ministry of Finance via the current tax amnesty scheme that will expire March next year as the Government of Ghana…
Like in Nigeria, Ghanaians evade taxes due to ill feelings of diversion by govt
The issue of tax evasion seems to be the same in other parts of Africa as it is in Nigeria. Many African citizens especially in Nigeria and Ghana, for too long live with the premonition that whatever they pay as…
Non-receipt of VAIDS letter doesn’t mean FG didn’t identify tax evaders—Adeosun
As the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) began to dispatch letters of tax notice to listed 500 prominent Nigerians with property and trusts abroad, on Monday, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has made it clear that those in…
