Emmanuel Orjih’s essay, being circulated, is rhetorically powerful, but its “simplicity” is achieved by subtracting the very provisions that determine the outcome. That is not clarity; it is selective accounting. Let’s dismantle the argument on its own terms—calmly, sequentially, and with arithmetic that actually follows the law. 1) The core confusion: pension and health insurance […]
The chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has disclosed that he has received threats to his life over his role in implementing Nigeria’s far-reaching tax reforms. Oyedele made the revelation on Tuesday in Abuja at a governance colloquium organised to mark the 50th birthday of the special adviser […]
By Joseph Tegbe Nigeria’s ongoing tax reforms have been widely mischaracterized as revenue tricks, mostly through epistemic closure and motivated reasoning, solely focusing on revenue figures, tax rates, and who pays what. These debates often miss the larger and far more consequential point of the reforms which are primarily about fixing a broken fiscal architecture, […]
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described the alleged forgery of the recently enacted tax laws as treasonable act against the Nigerian people . Atiku who is now a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC said the “illegal and unauthorized alterations” made to Nigeria’s tax legislation […]
Taiwo Oyedele, chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, has reiterated that more than 90 percent of Nigeria’s informal sector operators lack the capacity to pay taxes. Speaking at a roundtable with journalists, influencers and public analysts on Friday, he rejected narratives that government revenue is simply locked away in the informal […]