Tax Evasion

Tax Evasion Tribunal Orders Multichoice To Pay FIRS ₦900bn

Tax Evasion: Tribunal Orders Multichoice To Pay FIRS ₦900bn

The Tax Appeal Tribunal sitting in Lagos has instructed Multichoice Nigeria Limited to pay the sum of ₦900 billion as a deposit to Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

This development was made known to newsmen on Wednesday through FIRS spokesman, Dr. Abdullahi Ahmad, who explained that the money was part of 50 percent of the ₦1.8 trillion which the revenue had determined through a forensic audit to be the amount in taxes that the company ought to have paid to the government.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that Multichoice – owners of DSTV – failed to pay its rightful …