{"id":296989,"date":"2023-11-13T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T09:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=296989"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T09:43:15","slug":"wike-approves-property-tax-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/11\/13\/wike-approves-property-tax-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike approves property tax in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The FCT-Internal Revenue Service is said to have commenced the implementation of Capital Gains Tax in the FCT, as stipulated in the Capital Gains Tax Act 2004<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has approved a draft property tax regulation for the city.<\/p>\n<p>The development means that property owners in Abuja would start paying property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT-Internal Revenue Service is said to have commenced the implementation of Capital Gains Tax in the FCT, as stipulated in the Capital Gains Tax Act 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Capital Gains Tax mandates the payment of ten per cent tax on the total amount of chargeable gains accruing to any person on the disposal of chargeable assets in a year of assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Haruna Abdullahi, the Executive Chairman, FCT-IRS, made this disclosure when he spoke to journalists in Abuja on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi said the minister had approved some key initiatives to drive revenue for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/11\/06\/breaking-fcta-issues-ultimatum-for-squatters-in-apo-dutse-to-vacate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FCT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIn the last three weeks, the minister has approved some initiatives that are huge and will certainly change the dynamics in terms of the bottom line. Just the other day, we submitted a draft proposal to the minister for the FCT property tax regulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FCT-IRS Act empowers the minister to come up with a property tax regulation for the FCT. So we had a long conversation and we suggested it to the minister, and he asked us to come up with a draft regulation, which we did, and he has approved the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have an inter-agency collaboration whereby we review it because the draft was just done by the FCT-IRS, but that\u2019s not enough, you need other stakeholders. So he approved the initiative to go ahead and review the draft and then come back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubsequently at the end of the day, he will sign the regulation and is gazetted and implemented. 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