The federal government says the proposed 50 percent windfall tax on banks' foreign exchange gain in 2023 would be a recovery plan to balance the country’s economy.
The federal government says the proposed 50 percent windfall tax on banks' foreign exchange gain in 2023 would be a recovery plan to balance the country’s economy. The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Zacch Adedeji disclosed this on Monday at the Senate Committee on Finance, in the company of the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun. He noted that while the banking sector declared FX gains, the manufacturing sector lost N1.
reports that as part of the N6.2 trillion 2024 supplementary budget submitted last week, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu also asked the lawmakers to amend the 2023 Finance Act to give room for the windfall tax on bank's FX earnings. Accordingly, the government is expected to receive 50 percent revenue on a collective FX N3.7 trillion gains from banks in 2023.
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