Under the Pension Reform Act (2014), only employers with 15 employees and above are required to contribute to the Pension Scheme. The Act further provides that private organizations with less than 3 employees will be governed by guidelines. There is…
Under the Personal Income Tax (Amendment) Act 2011, we have two types of annual payroll tax returns. First, the annual employer tax return (Form H1) which shows the annual income and taxes of all employees in a company. More information…
Food. Clothing. Shelter (Housing). These are three basic needs of human beings. Housing is one of the key parameters for measuring the standard of living as well as the social status of a person. Housing is a product and a process. As a…
Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) recently appointed all payers of capital sums as collection agents for Capital Gains Tax (CGT). This appointment takes effect on 1 January 2019. According to LIRS, employers will withhold and remit CGT from compensation…
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has extended the time for filing 2018 employer tax returns by seven (7) days. The initial due date of 31 January 2019 is no more applicable. The new deadline is now Friday, 8…
An employer is required to deduct Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) tax from employees’ salary in each month. Thereafter, the employer must remit the amount to the relevant tax authority within 10 days of the next month. Besides the monthly PAYE tax return,…
Global mobility will be easier if employment tax rates are the same in every country. Well, it isn’t! The tax liability of an employee often changes during an international assignment. If an expatriate is tax resident in a foreign country,…
Multinational companies often send employees to another country for business purposes. It could be a formal or an informal assignment. An example of an employee on formal assignment is an expatriate. An expatriate is a person residing in another (host)…
