Turks:
Kuku Tax us for being alive

Lagos residents have to pay tax even if they are jobless. That amounts to taxing them simply because they are alive

they want to tax me for calling using the internet which i always pay for cos i dnt call for free and i pay for my internet usage or is that i cant read and understand anymore please some should explain for me

Robbing already stressed out citizens through tax to fund your fraudulent projects, padded budgets and fat salaries. Worst government in Nigeria history

What about the VAT we pay already?

DengXioping:
A whooping 9% percent tax rate! On services that even in their very existence are overtly poor. This government Rilly wants to make life difficult and pretty hard for Nigerians, and very soon it will become an "investor no fly zone" if adequate feasibility studies ain't effectively carried out before taking up some plans...One doesn't just wake up in the morning and suddenly say we want to do this and this cos its profitable or bla bla...in every decision taken, the long term implication must always be taken into cognizance.

Yeah,, them oil price is not high like it used to be

Fact is....we are a poor nation. When oil price was high...we paid no taxes.

Remember how Sanusi Lamido Sanusi removed ATM charges? (and even his enemies hailed him). Well....back then oil was above $90 per barrel. We could afford to do that as a result.

Remember when Emefiele brought it back? Oil was on a downward trend then. We could no longer afford to stop taxing ATM cards like we used to.

When a country's main revenue earner loses cash.....you have to start raising the taxes. And every oil producer is doing it.

We cannot afford subsidy. Sorry....but it is the price we pay for relying on oil.

This government killed the masses already all they just wana do is to bury us patapata.The masses'll always be @ the receiving ends.


We are now paying for the extravagant life our leaders lives in the past and still living now.Chai Opari ooooo

There r already plan on ground to rig d elections so forget abt 2019 d APC has perfected plans to rig d elections so dat is y they r bringing up useless policies to kill nigerians

Quakertellicus1:


Yeah,, them oil price is not high like it used to be

Fact is....we are a poor nation. When oil price was high...we paid no taxes.

Remember how Sanusi Lamido Sanusi removed ATM charges? (and even his enemies hailed him). Well....back then oil was above $90 per barrel. We could afford to do that as a result.

Remember when Emefiele brought it back? Oil was on a downward trend then. We could no longer afford to stop taxing ATM cards like we used to.

When a country's main revenue earner loses cash.....you have to start raising the taxes. And every oil producer is doing it.

We cannot afford subsidy. Sorry....but it is the price we pay for relying on oil.

Even when we weren't paying taxes per say, we still paid indirectly. With dwindling oil revenue, yes it might be right to raise taxes, or put an effective tax policy on ground, but 9% is way to high.

The change is here. Thank God for APC

Piuscrown:
My mind is out of this country. Patapata.
So i will graduate now, start working, and those people will collect everything. Instead of looking for ways to make information cheaper, they looking for ways to make it cost, didn't they know the value of information in national development?

You can always move to the US where:

- federal takes 20-30% income tax
- states take 5-10% income tax
- most states then charge 5-10% sales tax (goods and services)

so you might end up paying 50% of your earned income in taxes of one form or another.

Then the same governments turn around and charge income tax on the profits those companies made selling you a product or service.
If you through the cycle several times, you'll realize that almost 80% of all money is eventually paid as tax to government. Only 20% goes to the actual cost of production.

dem go soon tax us if we have sex with our husband or wife...

Quakertellicus1:







Well, I am not a zombie, or a wailer, but I can see the sense in government charging taxes on calls.

You see....today, oil prices are now $50 per barrel, and not too long ago they were $29 a barrel. In 2013....oil was $112 per barrel.

That means every barrel of oil we sell in Nigeria now....we are earning $62 less than we earned in 2013.

And oil sadly is our main source of revenue (and don't start singing agric. Agric is not the money spinner it once was. Neither is mining).

And if you recall.....we do not control the price of oil (Or for that matter cocoa,palmoil , groundnut or cotton. Or solid minerals).

When the source of your revenue goes down.....you have to look for other sources of revenue. it takes time to diversify.....ie YEARS. Meanwhile,we need the cash now to pay salaries,build things, keep subsidizing education and so on.

So taxes have to go up.....and new ones have to be found.

Or we take a loan from the IMF ......AND use the money to keep on pretending all is well.(We still have to take loans from the IMF).

And here is the cold reality. Oil is not going to rise again , and we cannot diversify into agric or mining because prices there are low too.(Most agric dependent African countries have their budgets written for them by international aid agenices You want that?)

Nigerians.....we are paying the price for years of relying on oil. And the only way out is more austerity measures....so that we can have the cash to fix the lights and transport...so that we can become industrial Not selling raw materials like this APC govt and their PDP predecessors and most of their Army precursors did.

So stop wailing, stop zombeisim. and face the fact. We are not a rich nation. This oil price fall has shown us the truth. And an oil price rise is not the answer to our problems.

Pay your taxes .THERE IS NO NATIONAL CAKE.

But the Govt is directionless and more clueless than GEJ's govt. I help make the economic aguement to voters around me of the danger of reelecting Jonathan during the 2015 campaign, and even though I was never impressed by Buhari's credentials, I never expected that he will be this bad at governance. Cluelessness means talking looselessly about monetaty policies of the CBN that you have the faintest idea about, keeping a CBN governor with an empty brain to make roundabout policies that drives invedtors away everyday, giving important govt offices to your family & friends when they know nothing about it, pretending to be fighting corruption when you shield thief Dambazu in your govt not minding allegations against. This is a president who cares less about Nigeria and Nigerians except you comes from among his own stock of people.... so willing to spend billions prospecting for oil in the north but can't be bothered about the lifes of people in other part of the country. Another failed president andca failed human being. I now understand and fully agreed with IBB overthrowing him in August 1995.

APC! I tire for una.o. So you now tax Nigerians for everything,meanwhile salary has refused to increased.I don't have have more to say,but just continue. Anyway, check my signature

They will only make foreign and investment in this country unattractive. Attracting investment into the country through tax waivers and other incentives for employment generation should be their goal at this point. Increasing tax on already taxed organisations will be a very bad decision. To imagine that the tax paid may be used for bogus oil exploration is annoying

nextstep:


You can always move to the US where:

- federal takes 20-30% income tax
- states take 5-10% income tax
- most states then charge 5-10% sales tax (goods and services)

so you might end up paying 50% of your earned income in taxes of one form or another.

Then the same governments turn around and charge income tax on the profits those companies made selling you a product or service.
If you through the cycle several times, you'll realize that almost 80% of all money is eventually paid as tax to government. Only 20% goes to the actual cost of production.

bro paying the tax is not the problem here but knowing that the money won't be properly use is an issue. When we have a lot, we know what they did with the money.

By the way how do you know am thinking of the US

hahahahah, i hope DORA IS NOW NO MORE LONELY like AKON?

lonelydora:
I regret supporting and voting for Buhari. He has nothing to offer. Confused government.

Una no go charge for breathing into the phone?

Hian !, Buhari is a Hardship provider, the giver of suffering and poverty developer, God please give us another IBB fast.

nastyesco:
I think this Govt is getting things wrong. Truth is a thorough Tax system isn't in place in Nigeria and because Govt needs other sources of revenue, They will need to explore other means for generating revenue. But the approach of this Govt is totally wrong. The telecoms system is already organised and Tax revenue is in place. There are many sectors which they can explore to generate tax. Simply put the Govt is just a very lazy one, they can't dare to innovate because they are not in tune with current practices. Rather than hire professionals to assist it has been mediocre appointments based on loyalty....Rubbish

I agree. Remember the policy on copyright policies for CDs when nobody uses them anymore because we can easily download movies and music from the internet.

Pidggin:
They tax my bank transactions now they want to tax my call credit too?

Bubu/APC go soon tax us for breathing the already polluted Air.

Only in Apc's lead government you will find all this happening. They always derive joy in punishing the masses.

thunder fire person wet him brain generate that idea... when I thought things could get more worse. supporting this govt is one of the things I av come to regret. someone should just go and give that man a is for APPLE o.

Lazy economics. To shore up revenue the got wants to tax even the air we breathe. If they want to tax tax, they cannot provide the basic amenities first. Idiot govt. Hopefully in the next 36 months they will be out for good. They to tax us like Britain without providing the free Healthcare, and housing Britain provides

When I'm even complaining that 3G is too small for 2500 they want to start charging extra?


The thunder we go fire them still dey do push up ☝ for Zimbabwe

nonjebose:
They will only make foreign and investment in this country unattractive. Attracting investment into the country through tax waivers and other incentives for employment generation should be their goal at this point. Increasing tax on already taxed organisations will be a very bad decision. To imagine that the tax paid may be used for bogus oil exploration is annoying

Honestly that should be the goal at this crucial point.

If and only if apc mentioned all these weird things we are seeing during their campaign. I don't think anyone that loves his/her country will vote for them.

Anyway, they have come into power be say they don come but like fly wey dey for Longman scrotum...

is the APC 'change' mean hardship?

I am not surprised. 2019 is almost here.

Quakertellicus1:







Well, I am not a zombie, or a wailer, but I can see the sense in government charging taxes on calls.

You see....today, oil prices are now $50 per barrel, and not too long ago they were $29 a barrel. In 2013....oil was $112 per barrel.

That means every barrel of oil we sell in Nigeria now....we are earning $62 less than we earned in 2013.

And oil sadly is our main source of revenue (and don't start singing agric. Agric is not the money spinner it once was. Neither is mining).

And if you recall.....we do not control the price of oil (Or for that matter cocoa,palmoil , groundnut or cotton. Or solid minerals).

When the source of your revenue goes down.....you have to look for other sources of revenue. it takes time to diversify.....ie YEARS. Meanwhile,we need the cash now to pay salaries,build things, keep subsidizing education and so on.

So taxes have to go up.....and new ones have to be found.

Or we take a loan from the IMF ......AND use the money to keep on pretending all is well.(We still have to take loans from the IMF).

And here is the cold reality. Oil is not going to rise again , and we cannot diversify into agric or mining because prices there are low too.(Most agric dependent African countries have their budgets written for them by international aid agenices You want that?)

Nigerians.....we are paying the price for years of relying on oil. And the only way out is more austerity measures....so that we can have the cash to fix the lights and transport...so that we can become industrial Not selling raw materials like this APC govt and their PDP predecessors and most of their Army precursors did.

So stop wailing, stop zombeisim. and face the fact. We are not a rich nation. This oil price fall has shown us the truth. And an oil price rise is not the answer to our problems.

Pay your taxes .THERE IS NO NATIONAL CAKE.

yes we need an alternative method to earn as a nation, but has every other avenue been explored? before beaming heavy tax on the masses.
I mean have we tried to reduce the cost of running this government? particularly the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY! that spent about 3.3% of the entire national budget as at 2015. God knows what they spend now.
TRIM DOWN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY! one the biggest consumers of tax payers money

nextstep:


You can always move to the US where:

- federal takes 20-30% income tax
- states take 5-10% income tax
- most states then charge 5-10% sales tax (goods and services)

so you might end up paying 50% of your earned income in taxes of one form or another.

Then the same governments turn around and charge income tax on the profits those companies made selling you a product or service.
If you through the cycle several times, you'll realize that almost 80% of all money is eventually paid as tax to government. Only 20% goes to the actual cost of production.

oga taxing ur citizens is not d problem but d problem is re we getting d moni d way its being spent? d US u made mention of make d moni d way d spend

We should be looking for ways to KICK against this tax instead of insulting n Lamenting

Someone create a new thread n post the link here it should be on how to kick against the this Tax n we all should follow d said Procedure else Like the bank Transaction tax no one kicked against we will ve to pay

Quakertellicus1:







Well, I am not a zombie, or a wailer, but I can see the sense in government charging taxes on calls.

You see....today, oil prices are now $50 per barrel, and not too long ago they were $29 a barrel. In 2013....oil was $112 per barrel.

That means every barrel of oil we sell in Nigeria now....we are earning $62 less than we earned in 2013.

And oil sadly is our main source of revenue (and don't start singing agric. Agric is not the money spinner it once was. Neither is mining).

And if you recall.....we do not control the price of oil (Or for that matter cocoa,palmoil , groundnut or cotton. Or solid minerals).

When the source of your revenue goes down.....you have to look for other sources of revenue. it takes time to diversify.....ie YEARS. Meanwhile,we need the cash now to pay salaries,build things, keep subsidizing education and so on.

So taxes have to go up.....and new ones have to be found.

Or we take a loan from the IMF ......AND use the money to keep on pretending all is well.(We still have to take loans from the IMF).

And here is the cold reality. Oil is not going to rise again , and we cannot diversify into agric or mining because prices there are low too.(Most agric dependent African countries have their budgets written for them by international aid agenices You want that?)

Nigerians.....we are paying the price for years of relying on oil. And the only way out is more austerity measures....so that we can have the cash to fix the lights and transport...so that we can become industrial Not selling raw materials like this APC govt and their PDP predecessors and most of their Army precursors did.

So stop wailing, stop zombeisim. and face the fact. We are not a rich nation. This oil price fall has shown us the truth. And an oil price rise is not the answer to our problems.

Pay your taxes .THERE IS NO NATIONAL CAKE.

What do you have to say to the government that has not done any visible project with taxes they have collected so far? Are you this hollow? Who doesnt know the crap you put up there? You are comfirmed and card carrying zombie