British Airways And Virgin Atlantic Have been Evading Tax In Nigeria - Senate

                              

There have been reports by The Nation newsaper that the Senate Committee on Aviation probing the disparity in airfares charged by foreign airlines accused the BA and VAA of perpetrating advance fee fraud for allegedly deliberately refusing to remit five per cent of the passenger Fuel Surcharge (PFS) to the Federal Government even when they are aware of such tax.

The Senator Hope Uzodinma-led probe committee, on its second day sitting, took the BA to task for failing to remit the statutory five per cent tax, allegedly surreptitiously introducing the PFS.

The committee was not convinced by BA Country Representative Kolawole Olayinka’s defence that his airline has not violated any Nigerian law through the practice.
Olayinka’s argument angered the lawmakers who reminded him that there were provisions in the Penal Code dealing with obtaining money by false pretence.