{"id":62689,"date":"2025-03-13T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62689"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:23:53","slug":"fct-irs-sets-march-31-tax-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/13\/fct-irs-sets-march-31-tax-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT-IRS Sets March 31 Tax Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS), has reminded residents to file their annual income tax returns before the March 31, 2025, deadline or face penalties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a statement on Wednesday, Head of Corporate Communications, Mustapha Sumaila, emphasized that tax filing is mandatory for all employees, business owners, self-employed individuals, and public office holders in the FCT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Defaulters risk fines, a best of judgment assessment, and possible legal action under the Personal Income Tax Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Acting Executive Chairman, Michael Ango, urged residents to comply voluntarily, stressing that timely tax payments are essential for funding infrastructure and public services in the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS), has reminded residents to file their annual income tax returns before the March 31, 2025, deadline or face penalties. In a statement on Wednesday, Head of Corporate Communications, Mustapha Sumaila, emphasized that tax filing is mandatory for all employees, business owners, self-employed individuals, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62691,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62689\/revisions\/62691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}