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COVID-19: Reps Pass Bill For Coys To Get 50% PAYE Refund by olaks4real(m): 2:14pm On Apr 16, 2020
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/covid-19-reps-pass-bill-for-coys-to-get-50-paye-refund/
The House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring the federal government to refund companies 50 percent of the income tax paid on employee salaries.


The ‘Emergency Economic Stimulus Bill’ introduced and passed during yesterday’s plenary session, was sponsored by all the principal officers.

The Bill, however, has to be passed by the Senate and backed by a Presidential assent to become law.

According to a copy of the Bill obtained by TheCable, it seeks to protect employees and cushion the economic implication of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic for companies registered under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2004.
The Bill states that eligible companies would be those that do not retrench their staff from March 1 till December .
It added that such employers shall during the period be “entitled to 50 percent income tax rebate on the total of the actual amount due or paid as Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax under the personal income tax act cap C8 LFN 2004 (as amended)”.


It also seeks to suspend import duties on medical equipment and drugs required for the treatment and management of the COVID-19, for a period of three months, starting from the end of March.

The Bill also provides for deferment of all mortgage payments for a period of 180 days effective from March 1, 2020. The deferment is applicable to residential mortgages obtained by individual contributors to the national housing fund


Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, said the Bill is temporary and is meant to expire in December 2020.


“We can review the Bill before the expiration date if, in the next few months, there is no need for it and we were able to beat the virus,” he added.
Re: COVID-19: Reps Pass Bill For Coys To Get 50% PAYE Refund by roundman: 4:12pm On Apr 16, 2020
This is laudable.

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Re: COVID-19: Reps Pass Bill For Coys To Get 50% PAYE Refund by kiyosaki1(m): 4:48pm On Apr 16, 2020
This commendable from our representatives. This is one of the reasons they are elected,hope the companies will reciprocate the gesture by not laying off their staffs during and after the pandemic.
Government should work out more palliative measures for the companies to avert looming unemployment and cushions the effect of incoming recession

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