BREAKING: VAT row: Court of Appeal rules in favour of FIRS

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Lagos today has upheld the appeal filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), against the Lagos Hotel Owners Association of Nigeria.
The Court of Appeal set aside the Federal High Court judgment in favor of the Association.

In 2019, the Association had gotten a judgment from the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, whereby the court had invalidated the powers of the FIRS to collect VAT from the members of the Association.

The FIRS thereafter appealed the judgment at the Court of Appeal. Today judgment has affirmed the authority of FIRS to collect VAT from all taxpayers