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Nigerian tax and bookkeeping, explained properly.

Reference guides on the Nigeria Tax Act 2025, plain-language accounting explainers, and notes on what we're building — written from the same source material Core Ledger runs on.

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A Practical Guide to the Nigeria Tax Act 2025

What changed, what stayed the same, and the handful of decisions that actually affect your books this year.

Cited against the NTA 2025 Act text
Jul 22, 202610 min read
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Capital Allowances and Depreciation, Explained

Two schedules, two questions, and one sale that produces two different numbers. Only one of them ever reaches your ledger.

Cited against the NTA 2025 Act text
Sep 6, 20269 min read
Tax & Compliance
one figure, once

Do You Need a Capital Allowance Opening Balance?

Only if you're carrying forward assets that already had relief claimed against them. Here's how to tell, and where the figure goes.

Sep 6, 20264 min read
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dr = cr

Double-Entry Bookkeeping, Explained Without the Jargon

Debit doesn't mean money in. Credit doesn't mean money out. Once that's settled, the rest is straightforward.

Sep 6, 20267 min read
Tax & Compliance
same cost, three speeds

Qualifying Capital Expenditure in Nigeria: The Full List

Fourteen asset types, three classes. The intuitive answer is wrong more often than it's right.

Cited against the NTA 2025 Act text
Sep 6, 20268 min read
Tax & Compliance
eleven into three

Withholding Tax Rates in Nigeria, by Transaction Type

Eleven categories, three rates. The rates aren't the hard part — deciding which category a payment belongs to is.

Cited against the NTA 2025 Act text
Sep 6, 20268 min read
Tax & Compliance
band by band

PAYE Tax Table Nigeria: How Much Should You Withhold?

The bands run on chargeable income, not on salary. Here's the table, what comes off before it, and what to withhold each month.

Cited against the NTA 2025 Act text
Sep 6, 20269 min read
Tax & Compliance
added, then deducted

VAT and WHT in Nigeria: What's the Difference?

They arrive on the same invoice, as percentages, both headed to FIRS — and almost everything else about them is opposite.

Cited against the NTA 2025 Act text
Sep 6, 20268 min read

We don't summarize the Nigeria Tax Act 2025. We cite it.

Every tax article on this blog is checked against the Act text itself, not against someone else's summary of it — the same source material the product runs on.

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