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Nigeria Suspends Two-Month Old Excise Taxes on Telecom, Tobacco

  • President is tackling ‘unfriendly fiscal’ policies: spokesman
  • Some charges were among ex-President Buhari’s final measures

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu suspended excise taxes on telecommunications services and some locally produced goods introduced two months ago. 

The new head of state of Africa’s largest oil producer, who took office in late May, signed the executive orders to “address business unfriendly fiscal policy measures and multiplicity of taxes,” according to a statement by his spokesman, Dele Alake, on Thursday. Alake didn’t elaborate.