Dangote Industries Limited (Dangote Group), and its subsidiaries paid over N402 billion in taxes in 2024, making it the highest taxpayer in the country.
According to a statement by the Group, Chief Branding and Communication Officer, Anthony Chiejina, disclosed this at a meeting with some senior media executives who visited him in his Lagos Office.
He explained that Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) and its subsidiaries, Dangote Cement, NASCON, Dangote Packaging Limited among others, remitted a total of N402.319 billion for the out-gone year as taxes as responsible business enterprises.
Chiejina said as a responsible business organisation, DIL and its subsidiaries have never shied away from its obligations either to the government in the form of tax payment at all levels or to host communities in the form of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
He noted that the Group’s corporate strategy has evolved just as its businesses have grown, matured and diversified into new sectors and regions over the last four decades, noting that Dangote Group has almost single-handedly taken Nigeria to self-sufficiency in cement and refined petroleum products and is expanding rapidly across Africa.
In 2024, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) recognised DIL and its subsidiary, Bluestar Shipping as the most tax compliant organisations in the country during its Special Day at the 2024 Lagos International Trade Fair organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI).
Dangote Group and its and its subsidiaries were also recognised as the number one most compliant in tax payment in the country, just as its subsidiary Dangote Cement, the country’s leading cement manufacturer, at another occasion won three awards at the FMDQ Gold Awards in Lagos as the most active business in the Foreign Exchange market.
Similarly, Dangote Cement Plc was adjudged as the Largest Commercial Paper Quotation on FMDQ and Single Largest Corporate Debt Issue on FMDQ, while Dangote Industries Ltd also emerged as the “Most active corporate in the foreign exchange market”.
