Dangote Recognized as most Tax Complaint Business Organizations By FIRS

It was a season of awards at the weekend for the Dangote Group and its subsidiaries following recognitions as Nigeria’s best compliant tax payer business organization and FMDQ Gold award winner for being the most active corporate organization in the foreign exchange market.
Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) and Bluestar Shipping, a subsidiary, were recognized as the most compliant in tax payment in the country ahead of the MTN Communication while the country’s leading cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc at another occasion won three awards at the FMDQ Gold Awards held in Lagos.
During the Special Day of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) at the just concluded Lagos International Trade Fair, the nation’s tax regulators adjudged Dangote Industries Limited as the most compliant taxpayers in Nigeria.
In another development, Dangote Cement Plc emerged as the Largest Commercial Paper Quotation on FMDQ and Single Largest Corporate Debt Issue on FMDQ.
Dangote Industries Ltd also emerged as the “Most active corporate in the foreign exchange market”.
The FMDQ GOLD Awards, (Global Competitiveness, Operational Excellence, Liquidity and Diversity), is a corporate tradition that recognises the resilience and agility of the Nigerian financial markets’ participants.
The award acknowledges the valuable efforts of these stakeholders, whose participation in the FMDQ markets and across the financial market infrastructure value chain of FMDQ’s businesses – Securities Exchange, Central Counterparty and Depository – have positively shaped the course of the markets and invariably impacted the development of the Nigerian economy.
Two companies from the Dangote stable; Dangote Cement and Blue Star Shipping were recognised at the weekend by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) as being among the most compliant taxpayers
As part of its Special Day activities at the 2024 Lagos International Trade Fair, the FIRS celebrated several business organisations for their high levels of tax compliance.

Dangote Cement was recognised in the biggest taxpayer category in the part of the programme tagged: “FIRS compliant taxpayers awards and recognition”.
Several speakers at the event including FIRS State Administration, Lagos Mainland, Ishola Akingbade, who represented the Chairman of FIRS commended these companies for their high levels of compliance which makes tax administration easy.
Head of Tax Compliance at Dangote Industries Ltd, Dr. Titi Fowokan speaking on the journey leading to the recognition by FIRS stated “Dangote as a Group has a Tax Policy that is based on zero tolerance for tax non-compliance.

source: independent.ng

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