FIRS recently issued self-certification forms for foreign residents with bank accounts in Nigeria. The new documentation is further to the Income Tax Regulation 2019. Nigeria…
Introduction Physical presence in traditional service delivery is easy to monitor. Under this system, a tax authority can determine whether a non-resident person is taxable…
Several countries want to lower cross-border tax evasion through the use of the Income Tax (Common Reporting Standard) Regulations 2019 or CRS Regulations. The CRS…
Nigeria has a tax treaty or double taxation agreement (DTA) with 14 countries. A tax treaty is a bilateral agreement between two countries which helps…
The income of a person or company will be liable to tax in Nigeria based on residence. A local business that generates all its profits…
Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has issued a regulation on the automatic exchange of information with 105 countries on financial accounts. The co-operation of tax authorities…
On 24 June 2019, the Court of Appeal (CoA), supported the ruling of the Federal High Court (FHC), in Vodacom Business Nigeria Limited (Vodacom) and…
Businesses engaged in cross-border transactions must address the impact of their operations in another country. One of the vital issues is international tax, including double…
Each country has its own tax laws. Nigeria, for instance, adopts the residency principle while some countries apply the source principle in deciding whether a…
The Federal High Court, Lagos ("FHC") has revoked the decision of the Tax Appeal Tribunal ("TAT") in Gazprom Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited (Gazprom) v.…