OPINION/EDITORIAL

Corporate Tax Rates: How Low Can You Go

July 15, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog In life, two things are certain: death and taxes, the saying goes. Unless you are a large multinational corporation, in which case, maybe not.  Over the past 30 years, corporate tax rates in all countries have fallen to very low levels, as we show in […]

SEC and Capital Market Development

July 15, 2019/SEC For several weeks now the recent step by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) regulatory to instill discipline in the nation’s capital market and, by so doing protect investors’ funds in the bourse, has continued to elicit cacophonous reactions from many analysts and commentators, who see the regulator’s moves from diverse perspectives. The debate, especially […]

As SEC, Oando Prepare For Legal Cross-Fire, Test Investments Laws

July 11, 2019 By Francis Oduwole ‪On Monday, July 22, lawyers to the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC and Oando Plc will have their day in the Federal High Court. While Oando Plc will be proving that its regulator overreached itself, and SEC on the other hand will show that […]