Entire Computer Village Shut Down Over Tax

damola u make alot of sense.

Education is the key! make dem educate the people on taxes! anyways to me i dont care! Fashola or no Fashola! there are many people who will do better and more civilized way.I dont like all these fashola song praise,_{na him money ni abi him no collect salary.}

Lets just do the right thing and educate our people! Awareness!!!

You do have very valid points here. People need to be educated on not just the importance but the hows. Now that I think of it, I think it is possiible that many of them never really knew they NEEDED to pay their taxes.  lol



Apart from the fact that we are afraid of the IRS man, the reason we pay our taxes is because we know we have to, if we want to continue enjoying good government. Most in Nigeria do not even know the essence of paying taxes, and many do not even know how.

@ mallam.

You have to look afar, and see how well this will work, don't just hope and dream, u need to digest things more deeply.

If he cannot carry people along, he's bound to fail!,  I repeat, bound to fail.

I still laugh at his beautifucation excercise, I remember, years ago, tinubu tried it under the bridge in Ikeja, he just fenced it with iron and all that, in less than a few weeks it's brought down, because he didn't provide any means for the existing in habitants . The same thing he's doing now.

I really am leaving to rest now.

is it proven that they werent notified of impending closure? have they been previously paying on time and just forget this one time? have they simply ignored the call to remit their taxes?

It should be give and take. I pay taxes, and in return the government provides me with basic necessities like constant electricity, ample water supply and security. One cant be paying taxes in Nigeria and still have to depend to private generator, private borehole and all it's likes. Is that not fair enough?

Nigerians don't want change, simple and short.
Every change that has been tried failed becuase Nigerians failed to rally around the initiator. They simply complained and complained and wrote about "how things work in foreign lands" but try it in their own country; hell no.
Growing up several years in Nigeria, Students Unions used to initiate change by taking to the streets. These days, they are more interested in cults, but yet they complain.
Left to me, Nigerian should be flogged 12 times daily till they shape up.!!
revmallam

God bless you Ndipe. I logged on to say the exact same thing.

Yes in the developed world, taxes are paid, but in exchange, you have the basic amenities of life - Electricity, Good Roads (and traffic lights as well as road lights), Running Water, Reliable Fire Brigade, Good Police, Decent Education System, Working Public Transport System (and in places like the UK Free Health Service AND an allowance for unemployed and disabled people). How many of these does our dear Nigeria provide?

I am all for paying taxes, but they come with a corresponding duty on the part of the government. As things stand, the poor masses would be squeezed for the tax only for some greedy bastard to cart away the money in Ghana must Go bags for his personal use. The painful thing is that in the past, Nigeria had most of these things and instead of advancing, we have clearly regressed. Giant of Africa my friggin Arse.

what more education should the govt give with the amount of publicity given  on the importance of paying taxes,a workshop/ symposium was organised and shown repeatedly on ait and other tv stations,even on ait international in all languages,the government sensitised lagos state citizens on the importance of paying tax so the people of computer village had no excuse, its only in nigeria that a busines area making millions of dollars turnover monthly will refuse to pay tax and i fully support fashola shutting the shops down,i dont think the whole place can be shut down because people live within the streets criss crossing in and out of the village

atimes I wonder how y'all reason 

the very 1st thing Fashola hammered on was that LAGOSIANS MUST PAY TAX TO MOVE THE STATE FORWARD !

dont be dumb . . .all stakeholders, including grassroots leaders met and agreed on the need to re-orientate the people on the need to make Lagosians pay their taxes, anyone saying Lagosians were not duly intimated on this is just playing the clown, didnt even Oba Akiolu do TV and Radio ads to burtress this ? FOR HOW LONG TO WE HOPE TO EXPECT RESULTS WHEN WE DO THINGS WRONGLY ?

MR DAMOLA

you claim to be a student  . . .discipline please ?

you feel so cool with your just criticizing BRF cos he closed Computer Village . . .wait for it ! THE TRADERS PLYING THEIR TRADE ARE DOING SO ON BORROWED TIME !  or dont you know that the place had been closed down before ?

how can you expect progress when you feel that everything about the country, state or govts are corrupt ? who told you that these advanced countries that you love to yap about dont have their own challenges ? na wa o /

Dr Kitaun
You said "all stakeholders, including grassroots leaders met and agreed on the need to re-orientate the people on the need to make Lagosians pay their taxes," that is only the masses my dear not they themselves as an individual. these people will they tell me they pay theirs diligently and truthfully?
When the devil wants to get out something from u he comes with few truths and many of lies. am not saying your highly celebrated Governor is a devil but i will tell u it takes only the grace of God to convince these innocent Nigerians for them to trust the government. These people has been cheated for years and know that only medium and low classes suffer for everything. It wil take a very long process is what i was saying. Even though these highly placed people decides to pay their taxes of which I know they wont pay diligently only few foreign companies pay, the masses will still not trust. What am i even saying? they can't pay and might not pay till they die. A long fraudulence that has been happening in the nation and u think one person will make the difference in just one year?

It took a thread on tax to reveal how retarded a lot of people living in lagos are.

How someone will see the development in lagos going on, refuse to pay tax, and give reasons to justify that baffles me to the fullest.

If those at the village dont pay up, I will not only close it down, I will hunt the idiots down.

And those of you blabbing here abt the government being wrong, best not have tax you owe else you'll be the next!!

another retarded post!!!

Someone save us from unintelligence pls!!

@ Damola,

No one here has presented the facts as to what really transpired between the traders and Lagos State Government.
How sure are we that an ultimatum was not set for them to comply?
Talking about education, the sporadic and continous jingles and adverts on radio and TV sensitizing the populace on the importance of paying tax and strict adherance to the policy - what is that called?
I believe it is high time the government took effective census of fixed stores in that market, do a temporary re-planning that is if that place will continue to be their base. Though it is impossible to ascertain the exact number of traders in there due to the daily increase in squatter and makeshift kiosks.
DO you think these guys don't know what taxation is all about? What do you call the weekly contribution that they pay to the miscreants and touts sent by community heads? These community heads make billions monthly at the expense of the government.
I had a gruel with Fashola too early last year when i was told to pay 13% monthly as tax under the new tax laws. I looked through the article that was given to me and i saw reason to pay.
Blue Chip firms have fallen under the hammer of this administration too for evading tax. Thus computer village aint the first and it won't be the last. Change has come to Lagos State and it must stay.
Dissociate yourself from this mindset and belief that the respected Gov. has erred in anyway.
This is not to say that the Govt. is absolved of all wrongdoings. They have their inadequacies and paucities too.
Let us co-join hands to make Lagos a better place.
Eko o ni baje.

@Builder
Let us try to control our tongue pls. What makes him an idiot is what i don't know.
Yaradua promised to improve power sector by declearing state of emergency in power sector, but nothing is heard again about it, so what do you now call him?

@poster
if government shout till tomorrow we won't do anything until action is taken against it.
So let us try to participate in the affairs of the state and country at large, then if government refuse to do what they promise or suppose to do, we can call for their heads after it's our money they are using.

abeg make him dem go pay tax o jare,  how some peeps go they pay and why some peeps no go dey pay huh ?? dem dey deduct my own tax levi for office too,

I learnt the market was shut down not only because of tax evasion but also for some environmental sanitation offenses. i think it's a decision in the right direction as the govt had severally sensitized the occupants about the importance of a clean environment and the need to pay tax.

I believe they never expected this considering the fact that they were not used to paying tax. . . they must have been counting their  losses; now they would learn their lessons