Do you live in Nigeria?
Say yes if you are based here, keep a home here, or your work and family life is here. If yes, money from abroad counts too.
How does your money come in?
Pick the one that fits most of your income.
Have you ever filed a tax return?
Not your employer filing for you. You, personally.
Money from Nigerian clients or your business
Everything they paid you this year, before you take any costs off. Rough is fine.
Money from foreign clients or platforms
Upwork, Deel, Wise, Payoneer, direct transfers. In naira, converted at the official rate on the day it landed.
Crypto gains you took
Only your gains, not everything you traded. Losses do not give you anything back.
Business costs you have receipts for
Only what you spent to do the work. Software, a laptop, transport to a client, someone you paid. Not groceries.
Your yearly rent
You get 20 percent of this off, up to ₦500,000. Only if you actually pay rent. Leave it at zero if you own or stay with family.
Pension, NHF, NHIS, life assurance
Your own contributions for the year, not your employer's side.
Your tax for the year
How it was worked out
Where the tax comes from
Do these next
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