FCMB organises tax seminar for businesses, advocates synergy among stakeholders

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has urged business owners in Nigeria to keep pace with current and emerging realities in the corporate environment, especially on taxation, in order to make their respective businesses competitive and enhance overall performance. In addition, the Bank would want stakeholders to build a more robust relationship that would enable Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMES) to effectively understand the country’s tax laws and how it applies to them.

FCMB made the submission at a virtual tax seminar it organised recently in partnership with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The seminar, the third in the series, was under the theme, “Tax and Your Business: An Indepth Discussion”. It recorded over 500 registered SME participants in attendance. The seminar provided a platform to equip entrepreneurs with requisite knowledge on taxation by promoting the exchange of ideas between tax regulators and businesses on existing and emerging tax matters to ensure compliance and avoid sanctions.

Topics discussed at the seminar ranged from, Accessing your Tax Identification Number, Understanding Nigeria’s Business Tax System, Tax Reconciliation Issues: An SME Perspective, Tax Compliance and Business Performance, among others.

Among the experts who spoke at the virtual seminar were the Director, Taxpayer Service Department at the FIRS, Saadatu Yero; Acting Director, Special Taxes Department of the Service, Adamu Kudu; Divisional Head, Transaction Banking, FCMB, Rolayo Akhigbe; Group Head, Business Banking, George Ogbonnaya; Head, SME Digital Innovation, Dennis Ezaga; Partner, Pedabo Professional Services, Killian Khanoba and Chief Executive Officer, Square Bee Four Nigeria Limited, Efe Sodje.