The Nigeria Governors‘ Forum has resolved to implement tax relief programmes for businesses and taxpayers across the 36 states of the federation in order to ease the current financial hardship.
They pledged to work with their various State Internal Revenue Services to ensure seamless implementation of the plan.
This was contained in a communique signed by the Chairman of the NGF, Kayode Fayemi, at the end of the 16th teleconference meeting of the forum, held on Tuesday.
The communique read in part “All-State governments through their Internal Revenue Services will ensure the seamless implementation of tax relief programmes for businesses and taxpayers. These programmes which were released in some States since March 2020 are designed to reduce the financial burden of taxpayers in the country up till 2021 in some cases”