Access Bank Plc has said through an email to its customers that it recently discovered a mistake in its operations records, whereby stamp duty charges on applicable transactions were not passed on to customers.
The bank said in the mail that the omissions occurred between February 1st, 2020, and April 30th, 2020.
Though the tier-1 bank said it was deeply apologetic for this error, it, however, noted that all concerned customers are to prepare to pay off the accrued charges.
In the email sent to customers over the weekend, the accrued N50 stamp duty charge will be debited from applicable customers’ accounts for remittance to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Concerned customers were, therefore, advised to keep enough money in their bank accounts in order to accommodate the charge.
“We recently discovered that the charges on applicable transactions carried out between February 1, 2020, and April 30, 2020, were inadvertently not passed on your account. We sincerely apologise for this.
“However, in compliance with the CBN mandate, we will be required to process the accumulated charges for the said period on your account for remittance to the Central Bank of Nigeria. We request that you fund your account to accommodate this charge,” the email from the bank read in part.
The email further explained that the CBN requires that a stamp duty charge of N50 be imposed on savings and current account holders for transactions (both deposits and electronic transfers) exceeding N10, 000.
Recall that the N50 stamp duty charge was reviewed in the Federal Government’s latest finance bill which took effect earlier this year.
The revision is such that customers would be required to pay the N50 stamp duty only if their deposits or transfers exceed N10, 000.
This is against an earlier practice whereby a stamp duty of N50 for every deposit/transfer exceeding only N1, 000.
