2026 Outlook: Tax Reform Update and Trading Investment Plan Communication
Dear Valued Clients and Esteemed Investors,
We extend our sincere appreciation to you for your continued trust, cooperation, and partnership with Akinyele Oluwale & Co. Your confidence and commitment remain fundamental to our ability to serve you effectively across our tax advisory and trading investment plan engagements.
Tax Reform Update
We commend our clients for their consistent fulfillment of tax obligations and their contribution to Nigeria’s socio-economic development during the last fiscal year. Your compliance—whether as corporate entities or individual taxpayers—plays a critical role in national growth, infrastructure development, and public service delivery.
As we transition into 2026, Nigeria’s ongoing Tax Reform agenda is aimed at building a fairer, simpler, and more growth-oriented tax system. Key developments include enhanced tax administration through expanded digital platforms, the transition from FIRS to the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), reduced compliance burdens, and improved taxpayer services. Importantly, the reforms prioritize broadening the tax base rather than increasing tax rates, encouraging voluntary compliance, and strengthening transparency and accountability in tax revenue utilization.
Corporate taxpayers continue to benefit from reforms that support ease of doing business, clearer regulatory guidance, and incentives for investment and job creation. Individual taxpayers equally benefit from improved taxpayer identification systems, balanced enforcement mechanisms, and increased taxpayer education and awareness.
We remain fully committed to keeping you informed, compliant, and strategically positioned under the evolving tax landscape.
Trading Investment Plan Update
Reflecting on the 2025 financial year, we sincerely appreciate your patience, trust, and confidence in our investment operations. The year presented significant global and local market challenges that impacted financial markets broadly. These conditions contributed to the delayed and, in some instances, failed payouts experienced during the period.
We wish to clearly reaffirm that these setbacks were driven by market conditions and not by any lack of commitment, integrity, or operational diligence on our part.
Looking ahead to 2026, we remain firmly focused on stabilizing operations and addressing outstanding payout obligations. Strategic measures are already being implemented to mitigate market risks, strengthen performance, and enhance resilience. We are confident that these steps will support improved outcomes in the near term.
We deeply value your partnership and remain committed to transparency, accountability, and sustainable long-term growth.
Thank you for your continued support as we move forward together.
Yours faithfully,
Akinyele Oluwale & Co.
A massive sell-off worth $1.65 trillion swept through the market on Friday, impacting bitcoin mining stocks and wiping out tens of millions in value among the top 20 publicly traded companies. This decline reflected the wider losses seen in U.S. stock markets, underscoring the increasing vulnerability of the sector to macroeconomic factors and changes in investor sentiment.
Global Sell-off Triggers Volatility in Crypto Mining Stocks
In yesterday's market decline, statistics from bitcoinminingstock.io reveal that IREN Limited (IREN) maintained its status as the top bitcoin mining firm by market capitalization, valued at $16.21 billion, despite a 6.38% drop in its stock price to $59.77. In contrast, Applied Digital Corporation (APLD) emerged as a notable exception, experiencing a 16.04% increase to $33.99, boosting its valuation to $9.51 billion.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), known for its ETH treasury operations, faced one of the most significant daily losses, plummeting 11.29% to $52.47, with a market cap of $9.09 billion. Riot Platforms (RIOT) and MARA Holdings (MARA) also encountered considerable declines of 5.70% and 7.67%, respectively, closing at $21.01 and $18.65 on Friday afternoon.
Within the mid-cap sector, Cipher Mining (CIFR) dropped 5.66% to $16.97, holding a valuation of $6.67 billion, while Core Scientific (CORZ) achieved a modest gain of 2.66% to $18.52, raising its market cap to $5.65 billion. Cleanspark (CLSK) fell 4.03% to $19.28, maintaining a market value of $5.42 billion, and Terawulf (WULF) experienced a slight decline of 0.58% to $13.51. Hut 8 Corp. (HUT) saw a decrease of 6.01% to $43.57, rounding out the top ten with a market cap of $4.6 billion.
Among the smaller-cap miners, Bitdeer Technologies (BTDR) faced the largest drop of the day, down 13.31% to $17.78, with a valuation of $3.77 billion. Bitfarms (BITF) provided a rare positive highlight, increasing by 0.71% to $4.20. HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) fell 5.02% to $6.61, while Northern Data AG (NB2.DE) decreased by 1.74% to $19.73. Bit Digital (BTBT) dropped 6.46% to $3.76, and American Bitcoin Corp. (ABTC) fell 9.16% to $5.95.
Further down the rankings, Cango Inc. (CANG) saw a 7.01% decrease to $4.31, Bitfufu Inc. (FUFU) fell 4.34% to $3.74, and Canaan Inc. (CAN) experienced a sharp decline of 10.65% to $1.09. In contrast, Digi Power X Inc. (DGXX) defied the overall market trend, rising 15.53% to $3.05, although it remains the smallest company in the group with a market cap of $136.36 million.
