- Nigeria will enforce mandatory electronic invoicing for large taxpayers starting 1 August 2025.
- This applies to businesses with annual turnovers of NGN 5 billion or more.
- The Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service announced this on 9 July 2025.
- Taxpayers must register and integrate their invoicing systems with the FIRS platform.
- The e-invoicing system follows the Merchant-Buyer model.
- Taxpayers need to generate, validate, and transmit e-invoices in real time.
- The rollout follows a successful pilot phase that began in November 2024.
- Participants in the pilot will transition to the production environment in August 2025.
- FIRS has provided resources to support onboarding and compliance.
Source: regfollower.com
Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.
