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Business Tax In Nigeria: The Controversy Of Multiple Taxation, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

Doing business in Nigeria is ranked 125th in the world out of 183 economics by the latest ranking of the World Bank. A major parameter for this assessment is using the incidences of regulatory controls and taxation of business activity to determine the ease of doing business in Nigeria. The controversy of multiple taxations has become one of the constraints of businesses in Nigeria due to overlaps of the various tiers of government taxing rights on business entities.

Nigeria practices fiscal federalism in which the fiscal responsibility of government is based on a three-tiered tax structure divided between the federal, …

Who Is Afraid Of Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Bill?, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has drawn different emotions from the stakeholders since it came into the public domain. The PIB proposes fundamental reforms of the Nigeria’s oil industry and is anchored on five major goals namely creation of new regulatory institutions, transformation of upstream contractual agreements, new fiscal regime, downstream sector deregulation, government participation in the industry and transparency in contractual agreements.

However, the scepticism shrouding the provisions of the bill is not helped with the recent media reports that oil companies are threatening to sue the federal government over the Bill’s purported retroactive agenda. The disclosure by the …

The Deepwater Horizon Spillage And Lessons In Liability Claims For Nigeria, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

The recent catastrophic Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and resultant spill, offshore Louisiana, USA awakened the world once again to the environmental hazards of oil explorations. Although the causal factor for the Deepwater Horizon spill is speculated, human error appears the consensus of experts who have tried reconstructing the events of that fateful day. The possible cause of the explosion will certainly be a controversial issue in a long time but the effects of the spillage on human, aquatics and environmental costs are very evident. There are several lingering questions from developments of the deepwater tragedy that set the tone for …

The Nigerian Local Content Act: Is It The Game Changer?, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

The passage into law of the Nigerian Local Content Bill is one of the significant developments for domesticating the oil industry through local value additions. The bill received presidential assent on 22nd April 2010 and created a Law to provide for the development of indigenous content in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry. Previous acts of governments had made feeble policy attempts at developing a local content framework for the industry and the fanfare associated with the recent enactment into law of the Nigerian Local Content Bill is very understandable.

Nigeria is the world's eighth-biggest oil exporter and relies on …

Nigerian Gas Master Plan And Policy: Is It A Constrained Energy Policy?, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

The Nigerian Gas policy is been aligned to maximise the oil and gas sector value to the economy and transit from an oil industry to an integrated oil and gas industry. These initiatives have been geared towards boosting the domestic market and realize maximum revenue possible from gas. As a result, the gas policy framework in Nigeria has been undergoing series of reforms and new policy initiatives and these have initiated the Gas Master Plan, namely: the Domestic Gas Supply Obligation, the Gas Pricing Framework and the Gas Infrastructure Blueprint. In the light of the interplay of political and economic …

Obsolescence Bargaining In Transit Pipelines: What Options Exist For Securing Resource Supply, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

ABSTRACT:

Within the Oil and Gas value chain, transportation plays an important role in fusing the link between the producer and consumer nations. The supply of oil and gas are principally through pipelines routes which typically transcend across several borders and therefore requires the negotiation of transit terms with transit nations. This situation has therefore subjected resource supply, a very important factor input in the matrix of energy consumption to the vagaries of obsolescing bargain and its ancillary effect of potential disruptions to the consumer nation. This paper shall seek to examine the issues of obsolescing bargain in transit pipelines …

Transfer Pricing In The Nigerian Context, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

Transfer pricing is an issue in International Taxation which has continue to befuddle both the taxpayer and the tax authorities. It is a valid business practice for associated companies in the pricing of inter-related sales within the group and on the other side of the divide, it creates a suspicion for the tax authorities that the pricing may be a form of profit shifting with the result of providing avenues for tax avoidance.

In the Nigerian context, the issue is not helped further as there is an absence of clear transfer pricing regulations. An increasingly share of world trade consists …

Securitization Of Foreign Investments In Marginal Oilfields, Humphrey Onyeukwu

Humphrey Onyeukwu

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