02/06/2014
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday sealed off the Lagos Office of the Media Trust Ltd., publishers of the Daily Trust newspapers, over alleged refusal to remit N5.6 million tax.
02/03/2014
Krok judgment provides strong legal basis.
01/31/2014
Operatives of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service has shut down seven companies for failing to remit N58.8 million personal income taxes of workers to government.
01/30/2014
Deloitte has pipped rival PwC to become the world's top accountant by revenue in the face of rising pressure on fees and new rules boosting competition, a global survey showed.
01/30/2014
Guernsey has completed two further bilateral Double Taxation Arrangements (DTAs).
01/27/2014
Forget FATCA – GATCA’s on the way, warns tax expert
The European Union has hinted moves are afoot for an EU FACTA to include all 28 nations belonging to the union.
01/22/2014
Executive intends to have cooperative agreements with international institutions and organisations
01/22/2014
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional service firm, has opened its doors in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, with an academy that will bridge the existing gap in the accounting profession in the country.
01/22/2014
European countries feature high on the list of the nations with the world’s highest income tax rates
01/17/2014
The Taxation Laws Amendment Act will limit the risk of double taxation for hedge funds, but industry experts are concerned there is a risk that trading profits could still be taxed within funds.
01/17/2014
The expected wave of intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) implementing the tax reporting and withholding procedures commonly associated with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has begun.
12/24/2013
Booz & Company's global partners have voted overwhelmingly to approve a combination with PwC.
12/23/2013
Miners who unearth gems in Sierra Leone are motivated to smuggle the stones out of the country in order to avoid having to pay a 15% tax on diamonds valued at over half a million dollars.
12/15/2013
The report further shows that between 1980 and 2009, Sub-Saharan Africa lost about $108 billion (Sh9.2 trillion) more in resources than North Africa did over the same period.
12/12/2013
Customers who went to transact businesses yesterday were left unattended to following the closure of banks by their respective managements in solidarity with others
12/11/2013
Fund Services first to market in SA
The fund services team run a SunGard application called Asset Arena Taxation specifically to support asset manager clients’ requirements for recording and reporting income tax and capital gains tax.
12/11/2013
South Africa has a number of attributes that make it attractive as a place from which to manage international investment portfolios
12/10/2013
Finance and Economic Planning Minister Seth Terkper presented the government's 2014 Budget and Financial Statement to Parliament on 19 November 2013.
12/03/2013
This is the first time that the revenue aspect of decentralisation has taken centre stage at a global level to allow countries to debate key questions about who should tax what and share good practices and experiences.
11/26/2013
Tax Avoidance Cost Africa Trillions Of Dollars
Two recent reports throw new light on tax avoidance in Africa, a practice estimated to have cost the continent more than a trillion dollars over the past few decades.