Rethink gold tax regime to capture more revenue from small-scale mining — IFS    
Gold

Rethink gold tax regime to capture more revenue from small-scale mining — IFS    

Joshua Worlasi AMLANU
Published August 13, 20263 min read

Government needs to rethink the country’s tax regime for small-scale gold mining to capture more fiscal revenue from a sector that is rapidly expanding its contribution to gold exports, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.

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