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FIRS To Prosecute Mr. Macaroni, Sabinus, Other Skit Makers, Influencers Over Tax Payment

“They are not paying,” Dare Adekambi, Special Adviser on Media to the chairman of the FIRS, stated when asked if Nigerian content creators file tax returns.

by NewsOnline Nigeria
February 4, 2024
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FIRS seems to be gearing to prosecute Mr. Macaroni, and Sabinus among other Skit Makers and Social Media Influencers over nonpayment of taxes.

 

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has announced plans to ensure skit makers, influencers, and digital content creators in Nigeria pay taxes.

 

 

According to the FIRS, it would first set up a meeting and discuss with the entertainers why they should voluntarily pay taxes, but if the appeal fails, they will move to enforcement.

 

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This Nigeria news platform understands that the Special Adviser on Media to the chairman of the FIRS, Dare Adekambi, made this known to newsmen, revealing that social media content creators and influencers constituted a major block of tax evaders.

 

“They are not paying,” Dare Adekambi, Special Adviser on Media to the chairman of the FIRS, stated when asked if Nigerian content creators file tax returns.

 

“Skit makers, influencers and other content creators who are making money using digital platforms need to be paying tax. There is a law in Nigeria that requires everybody who earns income to pay tax. They earn in dollars. Tax is a civic obligation; civil servants are paying, so they also have to pay.

 

“The CAC’s Registrar-General and the FIRS’ chairman recently discussed how they can work together in bringing them into the tax net. The challenge is how to track them, but we are looking into it,” Adekambi said.

 

He stressed that the FIRS would meet with content creators and influencers and make them see why they should voluntarily pay tax but “if our friendly approach is taken for granted, then we will go for enforcement,” he added.

 

Speaking further, Adekambi argued that social media content creators and influencers pay taxes in developed countries, the social media compknaies also pay taxes, so those who use the platform to make money should also pay taxes to the government.

 

“If Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms are paying taxes to the government, why would people using those platforms to create content and make money not pay? By the time a committee is a set up to look into it, a broad spectrum of activities will be covered.

“There is a way the government monitors everything in other climes. One of the cardinal goals of the current FIRS chairman is to leverage technology and data. When you have these, revenue will be predictable and it will be easy for the government to plan,” he said.

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