Enugu residents lack confidence in taxes, says group

The Enugu State Tax Justice Platform has said that over 50 per cent of tax payers in the state have no confidence in the way government allocate revenue from taxes.

A member of the group, made up of Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) in Enugu, Mr. Brian Onwurah, said this on Tuesday while presenting a survey report during a public dialogue with stakeholders in tax matters.

Onwurah said that the survey conducted across the three senatorial districts of the state, unearthed an alarming knowledge gap and lack of confidence in the state tax regime.

“There is a lot of work to be done to build the confidence of tax payers in the state. Majority of the residents does not know the agencies mandated by government to collect taxes and believe that the revenue so generated is not well allocated,” he said.

Onwurah said that the general belief was that there was ‘tax injustice’ in the state which needed to be harmonised.

The Chairman of the group, Mrs. Grace Nwobodo said that the current tax regime in the state lacked transparency and was skewed against the poor masses.