ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) at the weekend expressed its support for the Nigerian government’s reluctance to sign the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tax deal in view of its lopsided provisions that it observed were not in favour of developing economies. The Country Director of the civil society organisation, Ene Obi, in a statement […]
Scores of participants spanning a broad spectrum of the nation’s revenue and economic development space rose from their two-day parley in Lagos with a seven-point agenda for implementation by the fiscal and economic policy authorities in order to improve VAT revenue and avoid misgivings about what constitutes tax-deductible CRS expenses for corporates. These and other […]
Fiscal policy stakeholders, comprising the organised private sector, civil society and the public sector representatives, rose from a one-day workshop in Lagos with a four-point agenda for consideration by the Federal Government in order to properly define and appropriately classify corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditures for tax returns purposes for businesses in the country. At […]
The Ministry of Budget and National Planning on Monday urged Nigerians to improve agricultural practice for food security and increase the sector’s contribution to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Giving the charge at a stakeholders’ consultative forum organized by the ministry in collaboration with ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) and Oxfam in Lagos, the Director of […]