Fiscal & Tax

Joint Revenue Board (Establishment) Act 2025

Creates the Joint Revenue Board, the Tax Appeal Tribunal and the Tax Ombud — coordinating federal, state and local revenue collection.

Signed
2025-06-26
Effective
2026-01-01
Status
In force

1 Background

The JRB Act establishes the institutional plumbing for three-tier tax coordination. The Joint Revenue Board harmonises policy across the federal Nigeria Revenue Service, the 36 state revenue services and the 774 LGA tax authorities. A unified Tax Appeal Tribunal replaces the previous fragmented appeals system. The Tax Ombud — modelled on the South African office — gives taxpayers a place to escalate when a revenue authority oversteps.

2 Key provisions (5)

01
Joint Revenue Board: policy coordination across all three tiers of government
02
Tax Appeal Tribunal: single appeal forum, replaces patchwork of bodies
03
Tax Ombud: independent taxpayer-protection office, statutorily empowered
04
Mandatory information-sharing between federal NRS and state revenue services
05
Standardised tax-return formats accepted by all tiers

3 What changed in practice

Taxpayers now have a clear escalation path beyond the assessing authority
Conflict-of-jurisdiction disputes (e.g. Lagos vs federal VAT) resolved via JRB rather than litigation
Single Tax Appeal Tribunal hearing instead of fragmented venues

4 Who it affects

Tax payersState revenue servicesNRSTax practitioners

5 What it repealed / replaced

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