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Nigeria Providing Additional COVID-19 Tax Relief Measures

23 April 2020

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Nigeria

Nigeria's Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has introduced additional tax relief measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These include: a wavier of late return penalties for taxpayers that pay early and file later (assumed to mean payment made by standard deadlines); an extension to 30 June 2020 for the filing of personal income tax returns for certain persons, including for Foreign Affairs, Military, and Police personnel, as well as non-resident persons; and the suspension of all field tax audit, investigation, and monitoring visits until further notice. Further, for taxpayers facing challenges in sourcing FOREX to offset (settle) their FOREX-denominated tax...