Can we meet you? My name is Eniola Akinoso. I am an Associate with the Commercial Practice Group at Andersen Tax, Nigeria. I am the initiator of TaxVille, an online content hub that simplifies tax concepts and trends in a creative and relatable manner. I graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG) […]
EPISODE 1 – GENERATORS The average Nigerian is a wary human. There abides an inherent distrust in any venture that involves parting with any form of capital, much less, taxes. To the average Nigerian, the government breaks things – promises, their hearts and the social contract, there is no direct benefit of paying taxes […]
ENNY MONEY Enny Money was once like YOU. Every tax talk was spent wondering what in the world was being discussed. Every person who liked and talked tax was looked at like some weird creature that derives pleasure in calculations and hard stuff. Now she’s Tax balling. Every tax thing ‘issa goal’. Be like Enny […]
EPISODE 1 – APPROVAL At some point in our lives, we crave Approval, that pat on the back, Acceptance, that invitation to our dream school, job… or the Bar. What if we could buy Approval, Love or Acceptance with money? A tall order, but the Law is petty like that. The Love and Acceptance of […]
EPISODE 1 – ASSURANCE ‘Ever imagined a life without CIT?’ Majority of people reading this will think ‘Ha! Nope.’ It’s interesting then to note that CIT is like the engines of an Airplane, without which it will crash. It is like Vibranium, without which Wakanda becomes commonplace. It is the invisible glue that holds the […]
EPISODE 1 – BOOM In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great Country rested on the shoulders of its agrarian produces, by name – Cash crops. Cocoa, groundnut, timber, rubber, palm produce among others were famous for enhancing the local industries as raw materials and major exportation by […]
EPISODE 1 – SUPPLY Ever visited a wholesale shop to buy something as mundane as a bathing sponge and the price got you wondering if it will actually wash your sins away? Or followed your friend to a thrift store at Ojuelegba where he purchased sturdy brogues for 3,000 naira and wondered if those who […]
Episode 1 – Redemption When a Convict on the death row is granted pardon or when an Amputee is given new limbs and can walk again, the only thing that can follow, is overwhelming bliss, a feeling of redemption, a new beginning. That is what VAIDS brings to the table – Redemption, from our […]
Episode 1 Effects of Tax Evasion and Avoidance “If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!” – John Andrew Holmes. Everyone likes “awuf”.. Announce any treat to a group of people and the first, second, third and fourth questions will undoubtedly be: “Is it free???” The average human is wary […]
Episode 1- Canons of Taxation “You can have a Lord and you can have a King, but the man to fear is the Tax Collector.” Many of us today still share this sentiment of the Iraqi from almost 4 millennia ago that Tax is a necessary evil. Tax however, has a human face and […]
