ENTRY FOR OCTOBER 2019 PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION

This is to inform all registered Students of the Institute that the entry for the October 2019 Professional Examination has commenced from Monday, July 1, 2019 and will close on Tuesday, September 24, 2019.  One week grace is allowed for late registration at an additional fee of Five Thousand Naira (N5,000.00). Candidates are advised to pay their annual subscriptions (if outstanding), apply and submit their forms online as directed below:

GUIDELINES FOR ONLINE APPLICATION:

1. Go to https://www.citn.org


2. Input your username and password in “member login area” (Registered Students who are yet to have username and password should request for same by sending a mail to studentaffairs@https://www.citn.org.  Use the username and password to update your profile and pay your subscription due.  Without performing this process first, you cannot proceed to register for the examination.)


3. Click Register for an examination


4. Choose an examination centre,  and then choose an examination


5. Students will be required to upload their signature on the portal


6. The page of the subjects you are to write will automatically come up


7. Click on Proceed to payment where 19 digits reference code will be generated.

Candidates can choose any of the following payment options:

1.            Pay Online:

Process: Pay using any Bank ATM Debit Cards (Mastercard, VISA, Verve) on Global Pay, Webpay or pay with Quickteller on the CITN Portal.

2.            Quickteller.com Platform:

Visit www.quickteller.com/citn, insert the reference code generated from the portal, select student examination fee from options and pay with your ATM Debit Card (Mastercard, VISA, Verve).

3.            Pay Direct (Bank Branch):

Visit any commercial bank with your reference code generated from the portal and pay to CITN on Pay Direct Platform.

Note that your application will be updated automatically.

EXAMINATION CENTRES

Examination will hold in centres located in the following cities:

Abuja, Ado-Ekiti, Benin, Enugu, Ibadan, Ilorin, Kano, Lagos, Owerri, Port-Harcourt 

EXAMINATION DATES

Tuesday, 8th & Wednesday, 9th October,  2019

Note:    Potential Students are to ensure that they complete their registrations and/or exemptions on or before Tuesday, September 24, 2019 to be eligible to write the 2019 October diet.  

Benefits of Passing CITN Examination and become a Tax Practitioner

1.    CITN is the only regulatory body for the practice of Taxation in Nigeria. Hence the profession takes its statutory powers from the CITN Act Cap C10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeri, 2004.

2.    Whilst no Lawyer can appear before the Courts on behalf of their clients without being certified by the Nigerian Bar Association, No Tax Practitioner can Practice Taxation legally without being certified by the CITN.

3.    As from 2nd January, 2019, tax computations and filling of tax returns are to be done by licensed Tax Practitioners and CITN Stamps and Seal must be Affixed.

4.    CITN certificates can afford you the privilege of becoming members of some foreign Professional Institutes to which CITN enjoys good working relationships. Such Institutes include but not limited to the United Kingdom based Chartered Institute of Taxation, South African Institute of Tax Practitioners, Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana.

5.    As the awareness of the tax profession grows bigger and wider, our graduates now have unhindered opportunity to get employed in both corporate and private organizations that are beginning to have tax departments.

6.    The CITN Professional Qualification is one of the pre-requisites for promotion to senior administrative cadre in the states Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Inland Revenue.

7.    CITN Professional Qualification enables you to be versatile as holders have the opportunity of networking with minds in the industry where you develop a huge range of on-the-field intellectual, presentational and personal skills.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Council has approved the registration of undergraduates as student members provided they possess five credits (in not more than two sittings) at O-Level including English Language and Mathematics. In addition, certified letter of admission from the Tertiary Institution of the undergraduate would be required. Such students will start sitting for the Institute Examinations from the Foundation level before progressing to other levels.

For entry enquiries, please contact:

Funke: 08080531805      Christy: 08160134274    Saad: 08054044475    

For further details, contact:

Adefisayo Awogbade, MSc, FCTI

Registrar/Chief Executive

1.    CITN is the only regulatory body for the practice of Taxation in Nigeria. Hence the profession takes its statutory powers from the CITN Act Cap C10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeri, 2004.

2.    Whilst no Lawyer can appear before the Courts on behalf of their clients without being certified by the Nigerian Bar Association, No Tax Practitioner can Practice Taxation legally without being certified by the CITN.

3.    As from 2^nd January, 2019, tax computations and filling of tax returns are to be done by licensed Tax Practitioners and CITN Stamps and Seal must be Affixed.

4.    CITN certificates can afford you the privilege of becoming members of some foreign Professional Institutes to which CITN enjoys good working relationships. Such Institutes include but not limited to the United Kingdom based Chartered Institute of Taxation, South African Institute of Tax Practitioners, Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana.

5.    As the awareness of the tax profession grows bigger and wider, our graduates now have unhindered opportunity to get employed in both corporate and private organizations that are beginning to have tax departments.

6.    The CITN Professional Qualification is one of the pre-requisites for promotion to senior administrative cadre in the states Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Inland Revenue.

7.    CITN Professional Qualification enables you to be versatile as holders have the opportunity of networking with minds in the industry where you develop a huge range of on-the-field intellectual, presentational and personal skills.