Tax technology · Lagos, Nigeria

The 2026 tax reform rewrote VAT.Silo does the new work.

New input-VAT credits, e-invoicing mandates, state-by-state schedules: the reform created real work for every VAT-registered business and every practice that serves one. Silo builds the software that does it.

Monthly VAT position · illustrative hotel client
Output VAT collected₦2,950,000
Input VAT · goods (old rules)− ₦418,000
Input VAT · services & assetsNEW · s.155(4)− ₦0
Remit on the 21st ₦2,532,0002,532,000
Illustrative figures from a two-month sample engagement. Your numbers depend on your records.
Reviewed & signed · CITN-licensed practitioner
s.155(4)
Nigeria Tax Act 2025: input VAT on services and fixed assets is now deductible
₦3.4tn
newly claimable input VAT per year across Nigerian businesses under the 2026 rules
Jul 2027
e-invoicing becomes mandatory for small taxpayers. Thousands of businesses land on their accountants' desks at once
21st
monthly VAT deadline, every month, for every client, with new schedules and penalties attached
Two ways in

One engine. Two doors.

The same computation engine powers both: a done-for-you capture service for businesses, and a workstation that puts that engine in an accountant's hands for every client at once.

For businesses

Capture the input VAT the law now lets you claim

Since January 2026, the VAT you pay on services, equipment and rent offsets the VAT you remit. Our software finds every claimable naira in your purchase records; a CITN-licensed practitioner reviews and signs; you simply remit less each month. The review is free, and if we find nothing, you pay nothing.

How the capture service works
For accounting practices

The multi-client VAT & e-invoicing workstation

Return preparation, e-invoice ingestion, the new state-by-state schedule, withholding reconciliation, amendments and deadlines, for every client on one screen. We are building it with Lagos practices now so it is ready before the July 2027 small-taxpayer wave.

See the console
The capture service

From your purchase records to a smaller remittance.

Before 2026, businesses could only deduct VAT paid on goods for resale. The law now credits VAT on services, fixed assets and overheads: security contracts, professional fees, premises rent, generators, machinery. Most monthly filings haven't caught up. Ours is the service that catches them up.

Software reads your purchases

We ingest your purchase invoices and classify every line under the 2026 rules. Nothing leaves your control.

Every claimable naira, computed

Creditable inputs identified, mixed supplies apportioned, and every invoice that needs fixing flagged before it costs you the credit.

A licensed practitioner signs

The savings memo and filings are reviewed and signed by a CITN-licensed tax practitioner, as the law requires. Your existing accountant stays involved.

You remit less, every month

No refund applications and no waiting on government: the saving appears on your own next filing. The fee is a disclosed share of first-year savings, then a flat retainer.

Businesses with stranded withholding-tax credit notes get the same treatment as a bolt-on module: reconciled, validated, and put to work against your company income tax. Best fit: service-heavy businesses in the ₦100m–₦5bn band, such as hotels, restaurant groups, logistics, agencies and facility management.

The practice console

Every client's VAT, one workstation.

Nigerian practices run multi-client VAT on per-client portal logins and Excel. The console replaces the spreadsheet layer, and we harden it on real engagements before it reaches your desk.

Client dashboard

Every client's filing status, deadlines and exposure at a glance: who's ready, who's at risk, and what's due by the 21st.

E-invoice ingestion

Pulls each client's e-invoice data into the file that becomes their return, the bridge between the mandate and the filing.

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Return preparation

Computation to ready-to-file, including the state-by-state sales schedule and withholding-VAT reconciliation the 2026 rules demand.

Input-VAT capture built in

The same engine our capture service runs on: every client's newly creditable input VAT, computed and evidenced by default.

Amendments & corrections

Tracked properly, with the paper trail that survives an audit. This is the workflow the portals never gave you.

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Penalty & deadline guard

Nil returns, late-filing exposure and per-client penalty risk, surfaced before the deadline instead of after it.

Preparation, never submission. Filing stays with you, on the portal, under your signature. The console gets everything ready. It will never make a government portal's downtime your liability.

Priced for practices rather than enterprises, so serving three times the clients raises your margin instead of your costs. A small group of Lagos practices is shaping it now as design partners ahead of the July 2027 wave.

Become a design partner
Who's behind Silo
Tunde Oluwamo
Founder

Six years building compliance software used inside Nigerian and Gambian commercial banks: transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and NFIU regulatory reporting that turned days of manual compliance work into overnight jobs.

Built by someone who's shipped compliance software banks rely on.

Regulatory software only works when it survives contact with auditors, regulators and real data. That's the standard Silo is built to: every computation traceable to an invoice, every claim backed by the section of the law it stands on, every filing signed by a licensed professional.

Silo is Lagos-based and works with businesses and practices across Nigeria.

Questions

The three things everyone asks.

Is the input-VAT capture legal?

Yes. It is the law working as written. Section 155(4) of the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 (in force since 1 January 2026) expressly makes input VAT on services and fixed assets deductible against output VAT, with apportionment rules for mixed supplies. We claim exactly what the Act provides, nothing more, and every filing is signed by a CITN-licensed tax practitioner.

Who actually files?

A licensed professional, always. Nigerian law requires returns filed on your behalf to come from an accredited tax agent. Silo's software prepares the computation and the evidence pack; a CITN-licensed practitioner reviews, signs and files. For console customers, filing stays entirely with your own practice: the console prepares, you submit.

What does it cost?

The capture service starts with a free review; if claimable VAT is found, the fee is a disclosed share of first-year savings, then a flat retainer. If we find nothing, you pay nothing. The console is priced for practices, below what the accredited e-invoicing providers charge, so it pays for itself inside a single client retainer.