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    Saturday, August 28, 2021

    NACCIMA Seeks Suspension of FIRS’s Tax Appeal Practice Direction

    The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture,(NACCIMA) rose from its 3rd Council Meeting, Thursday, in Akure calling for immediate suspension of implementation of the FIRS Tax Appeal Practice Direction by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court pending its revision.

    The Council was of the firm view that if the Tax Practice Direction, which compels companies to pay 50% of assessed tax to FIRS before any appeal to contest the assessment is allowed to proceed, most businesses in the private sector will practically collapse.

    According to the statement sent from the Secretariat saying the resolution and call became necessary because feelers from the organised private sector indicate that many businesses have been struggling to survive an unfriendly business environment which has been made even more difficult due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Council was convinced that MSMEs which are currently the bedrock of the economy and provide most of the employment will certainly be most hard hit and will not and cannot survive the implementation of Practice Direction, some of which provisions requires enforcement and forfeiture of immovable property, freezing of a taxpayer’s bank account and sealing of their premises. With such action, many of them will go under and collapse under the weight of these provisions of the FIRS Practice Direction.

    The Council, therefore, called for immediate suspension of its implementation to enable a robust stakeholders engagement with the relevant authorities for a revision of the TAX PRACTICE DIRECTION and other onerous tax matters.

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