{"id":206701,"date":"2025-09-10T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-explainer-the-5-surcharge-on-fuel-what-is-true-and-what-is-not\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:11:12","slug":"nigeria-explainer-the-5-surcharge-on-fuel-what-is-true-and-what-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-explainer-the-5-surcharge-on-fuel-what-is-true-and-what-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Explainer &#8211; the 5% Surcharge On Fuel: What Is True and What Is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Taiwo Oyedele, the chair of the Presidential Fiscal Policy &amp; Tax Reforms Committee clarifies Nigeria&#8217;s five percent surcharge on fuel &amp; Presidential Fiscal Policy &amp; Tax Reforms Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">This note seeks to clarify matters arising regarding the 5% surcharge on fuel in the new tax laws. The charge is not a new tax introduced by the current administration. The provision already exists under the <a href=\"https:\/\/ferma.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Roads Maintenance Agency<\/a> (Amendment) Act, 2007. Its restatement in the new Tax Act is for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwo Oyedele, the chair of the Presidential Fiscal Policy &amp; Tax Reforms Committee clarifies Nigeria&#8217;s five percent surcharge on fuel &amp; Presidential Fiscal Policy &amp; Tax Reforms Committee This note seeks to clarify matters arising regarding the 5% surcharge on fuel in the new tax laws. The charge is not a new tax introduced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,13488,7570,257,4687,393,254,43326,7419],"class_list":["post-206701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-explainer","tag-fuel","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surcharge","tag-true"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}