{"id":218493,"date":"2025-12-30T03:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-nigerias-new-tax-laws-aim-to-cut-airline-costs-stabilise-fares-official\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:25:49","slug":"nigeria-how-nigerias-new-tax-laws-aim-to-cut-airline-costs-stabilise-fares-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-nigerias-new-tax-laws-aim-to-cut-airline-costs-stabilise-fares-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How Nigeria&#8217;s New Tax Laws Aim to Cut Airline Costs, Stabilise Fares &#8211; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Under the new tax laws, airlines become fully VAT-neutral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Nigeria&#8217;s new tax laws are designed to ease long-standing cost pressures on airline operators and prevent sharp increases in air fares, the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee has said, countering claims that the reforms will worsen conditions in the aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The committee said this in a statement published by its Chairman, Taiwo Oyedele, via his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/taiwoyedele\">X account<\/a><\/strong> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290479.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>Under the new tax laws, airlines become fully VAT-neutral. Nigeria&#8217;s new tax laws are designed to ease long-standing cost pressures on airline operators and prevent sharp increases in air fares, the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee has said, countering claims that the reforms will worsen conditions in the aviation sector. The committee said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218494,"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":[258,256,12953,7304,11509,8021,14547,5040,257,4687,393,5761,5092,254,21720,8352],"class_list":["post-218493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aim","tag-airline","tag-costs","tag-cut","tag-fares","tag-laws","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-official","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stabilise","tag-tax"],"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\/218493","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=218493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}