{"id":33042,"date":"2020-12-02T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33042"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:01:08","slug":"tax-waivers-window-closes-december-31-firs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tax-waivers-window-closes-december-31-firs","title":{"rendered":"Tax waivers window closes December 31 \u2013 FIRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says the waivers of penalties and interest on outstanding taxes from desk examinations, audit exercises, investigations or all other forms of tax assessment will be concluded on December 31, this year.<\/p>\n<p>FIRS appealed to taxpayers in Nigeria to capitalize on the opportunity provided by the remaining days to settle their tax obligations in order to enjoy all subsisting waivers offered.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami, issued a reminder notice ttitled, \u201cPublic Notice on the Recovery of Outstanding Taxes from Taxpayers\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nami said that FIRS had issued a series of palliatives for the waivers of penalties and interest on outstanding taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman said the agency observed that some taxpayers are yet to capitalize on the windows opened to cushion the effect of the challenges of the economy on taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Service wishes to put all taxpayers on notice that the last window of opportunity for the waiver of outstanding penalties and interest on all taxes collectible by the Federal Inland Revenue Service shall close on 31st December 2020\u2033, Nami announced.<\/p>\n<p>The notice added that after the expiration date, FIRS will recover all outstanding debts with penalties and interest, in accordance with the provisions of the extant tax laws such as \u201cthe power of substitution\u201d conferred on it by Section 31 of the FIRS (Establishment) Act 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says the waivers of penalties and interest on outstanding taxes from desk examinations, audit exercises, investigations or all other forms of tax assessment will be concluded on December 31, this year. FIRS appealed to taxpayers in Nigeria to capitalize on the opportunity provided by the remaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,28,26],"tags":[1570,1627,1243,254,646],"class_list":["post-33042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-december","tag-firs","tag-nigeria","tag-tax"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tax waivers window closes December 31 \u2013 FIRS - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tax-waivers-window-closes-december-31-firs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tax waivers window closes December 31 \u2013 FIRS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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