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FEC Approves Finance Bill, Rules Out Increase In Taxes

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November 19, 2020
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday, approved the Finance Bill 2020 aimed at reviewing the country’s tax laws and supporting the 2021 budget.

It also ruled out the possibility of increase in taxes as a result of the passage of the bill.

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Addressing reporters after the weekly meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said the Bill would be speedily transmitted to the National Assembly for legislative action.

She said that government’s intention with the bill was to improve tax laws and review taxation that negatively affects critical businesses, especially small and medium enterprises.

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She said some taxes had been reviewed downward, adding: “In the last Finance Bill 2019, we reduced taxes from 30 to 20 per cent for enterprises that have turnover of between N25 and N100 million.”

Ahmed restated that the present situation in the country does not warrant more taxation and overburdening of the people.

“This is not the time to increase taxes,” she stated adding that the Finance Bill seeks to make “incremental changes to tax laws relating to customs and excise, as well as other fiscal regulations to support implementation of the annual budget.”

She explained further: “When Mr. President presented the 2021 budget to the parliament, he did direct that the 2020 Finance Bill will also follow to support the budget proposals.

“We are working on implementing current fiscal reforms in line with the Multi-year Medium Term Framework and over time, we hope that with this Finance Bill, the fiscal space will be reformed on an incremental basis.

“So this Finance Bill for 2020 was developed as a result of a very large multi-stakeholder effort under the Fiscal Policy Reform Committee that has several ministries, departments and agencies and even the private sector as members.

“In producing this bill, what we were inadvertently doing was amending provisions of 13 different taxes which include the Capital Gains Tax Act, Companies Income Tax Act (CITA), Industrial Development (Income Tax Relief) Act (IIDITRA), Personal Income Tax Act (PITA), Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act, Customs & Excise Tariff (Consolidation) Act, Value Added Tax Act (VATA), Federal Inland Revenue Service (Establishment) Act, Fiscal Responsibility Act and the Public Procurement Act.”

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