Digitax is an authorised tax representative specialising in African compliance execution for non resident businesses
About Digitax Group
Digitax provides an interface with the Nigerian tax authority to assist with the tax compliance process and timely settlement of taxes due.
Digitax works primarily but not exclusively with non-resident businesses.
Digitax represents merchants of all sizes which need to file returns and pay tax in Nigeria.
If you have customers outside of Nigeria but in the rest of Africa then Digitax has a network of advisers and contacts that can support you.
Introduction To Non Resident Tax Collection
The world’s taxation system over the last decade has been moving increasingly to a regime based on customers’ locations rather than legal entities’ locations.
In Nigeria legislation was enacted in 2022 which began this process of bringing non-resident merchants into the scope of Nigerian VAT and DST.
Digitax is the first agent authorised by the Nigerian tax authority (FIRS) to focus on the needs of non-resident businesses with customers in Nigeria and may therefore become liable to pay Nigerian tax.
Digitax therefore provides both the necessary support to non-resident merchants and the confidence to the tax authorities that merchants are operating within an ecosystem compliant with Nigerian law.
This enables merchants to more easily comply with tax regulations whilst reducing the administrative burden and cost of compliance.
Tax authorities in turn need a trusted intermediary such as Digitax through which these taxes can be collected and through which they can request information from merchants in respect of queries they may have or to host and manage local tax audits.
Operating in Nigeria
Digitax Relationship With FIRS
As the FIRS authorised non-resident tax revenue collector, our mission is to ensure your business can be compliant in Nigeria through an efficient and constructive interaction with the Nigerian tax authority, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Digitax Services
Representation FIRS needs a point of constructive interaction within its non-resident taxpayer base. It can achieve this through Digitax because:
– Digitax operates on an international basis with representative offices in the UK, USA and associate firms in the rest of Africa. Wherever you are Digitax can provide a local point of contact in your time zone.
– The Digitax team has long-standing relationships with FIRS over decades of working together on client tax and compliance matters. Digitax is part of the Desucla representation network using Desucla technology in respect of both compliance management and tax payments.
Support
In Nigeria, Digitax is advised by Andersen Nigeria a leading local tax firm and part of the Andersen Global network giving us access to world class tax experts on a global basis.
Tax Payments
Using Desucla’s Taxpay infrastructure we can collect tax payments due to FIRS in the US, UK, Europe and Asia and convert them into Naira payments for onward settlement.
Registration
To sign up go to www.desucla.com and choose Nigeria from the drop down country list