Tackling tax evasion in Nigeria
By CNBC
04 July 2017 |
5:32 am
According to Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, in many cases the lifestyles of Nigerians do not correlate with their tax returns and this is because of massive tax evasion.
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