Start-up Taxation Breakfast Session

The Start-up Breakfast Series is an Ecosystem dialogue project designed to promote deep-rooted conversations to address the critical challenges in our ecosystem and function as a catalyst for multi-sector collaboration, innovation and policy creation. The Start-up Taxation Breakfast Session is the second edition of SBS designed to review Tax policies and challenges in Nigeria, including, the 2020 Finance Act and 2017 National Tax Policy approved by the Federal Executive Council.

Through this session, we would like to enlighten participants on taxation in Nigeria, the processes involved, the loopholes in the taxing system and National Tax Policy, tax Administrators: The Cause and Effect of Double Taxation. Finally, the policy solutions and the way forward.

Key Note Presentation: Belema R. Obuoforibo CTA ATT (Fellow)

Director, IBFD Knowledge Centre

Topic: Impact of Taxation on International Development and Developing Economies.

Panel Session: Double Taxation in Nigeria and Tax Administrators: The Cause and Effect.

Panelists:

•  Chukwuemeka Chime – Senior Manager | Corporate Tax Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
•  Elizabeth Olaghere – Senior Manager, Consumer and Industrial Markets Tax, Regulatory and People Services, KPMG
•  Oluwatoyin Olufon ACCA, ACA – Chief Executive Officer/Principal Consultant at Lefort Consulting
•  Femi Oluwaniyi – Coordinating Director, Tax Operations Group, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

   Moderator: Mercy Olorunfemi – Program Manager, Connect Lab (Work and Connect).