Tag: Tax Evasion

Dino Melaye summoned to court for alleged tax evasion

Aminu Imam
Dino Melaye faces

Former Senator representing Kogi-West constituency, Dino Melaye, has been summoned to court over alleged failure to pay his mandatory Personal Income Tax for 2023 and 2024, as well as underpayment of taxes in 2020, 2021, and 2022. A criminal summons, dated August 21, 2025, was issued by a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Magistrate Court, requiring Melaye to appear before the Magistrate Court at Wuse Zone II, Abuja, on September 5, 2025. According to the FCT Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Melaye only paid ₦85,000.08 in 2019, ₦100,000.08 in 2020, ₦120,000 in…

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Tax Evasion: Tribunal orders DSTV to pay FG N900bn tax backlog

Ishaku Yohanna

A Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) sitting in Lagos has ordered Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of cable television services, DSTV, to pay 50 per cent of N1.8 trillion tax backlog to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, the Director, Communications and Liaison Department of the FIRS, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. Ahmad explained that FIRS discovered the backlog through a forensic audit as it showed that Multichoice Nigeria Limited had failed to pay to the Government of Nigeria in past assessment years. He…

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