I recently encountered a problem compiling my Xamarin.Forms iOS project. Everything worked well when testing the UWP App during development, but when I tried to test the iOS project, the compiler threw the following error:

CSC : error CS1703: Multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported (iOS)'[..]\packages\system.reflection.emit\4.3.0\ref\netstandard1.1\System.Reflection.Emit.dll’ and ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\Microsoft\Framework\Xamarin.iOS\v1.0\Facades\System.Reflection.Emit.dll’. Remove one of the duplicate references.

 
Checking those two files mentioned, you’ll find out, that those have two different versions (nuget cache: 4.3.0, VisualStudio: 4.0.0), also the path (and file size) states, that the file from the VisualStudio folder is only a facade.

The solution is quite simple, just add a package reference to your project-file excluding all assets:

<PackageReference Include="System.Reflection.Emit" Version="4.3.0">
  <ExcludeAssets>all</ExcludeAssets>
</PackageReference>

.. just add it in an ItemGroup block with other package references and you solved that issue.