vanbonattel:


Yeah, Bauchi parasites has been abusing Rivers state people and destroying their beers. It's shameful.

okeyumez:
North is too poor in terms of human, economic, social, spiritual and infrastructural development.
Too backward

Coldie:

So because Nigerians abroad contribute a lot to Nigeria therefore the east is more productive than the north?

backbencher:


Well, why are you crying.

You guys should stop seeing this as a South vs North thing. If each and every state collects VAT...we could end up with higher prices for everything...because most states are not earning enough income , even with oil money...and as a result...they are going to raise VAT to earn that income.

The cold reason why Lagos and Rivers are running after VAT is because oil money has been on decline . And they don't want to raise personal income taxes, or tax the majority of their residents who don't pay tax because they work in the informal sector. The VAT thing is at the end of the day just pushing the evil day forward....ie they have to raise taxes on everyone with oil continuing to fall.

The thing is, at the end of the day, VAT would be collected ....and the companies who pay vat will pass the cost to you the end consumer.

Emergingnation:
The parasite will get sense by force by fire

skywalker240:

as long as no aboki is feeding off our state resource, ill gladly buy a sachet of pure water for #1000. Woyo

adamsmith914:
Making a mockery of yourself, Abia State ranks one of the lowest in IGR in the Federation.

Emergingnation:
The same Abia state is one of oil producing states in Nigeria

skywalker240:

as long as no aboki is feeding off our state resource, ill gladly buy a sachet of pure water for #1000. Woyo

adamsmith914:
Our state resources, because na your grandpapa plant the natural resources for ground? Lazy Mumurist, go and add value to the so called natural resources.

skywalker240:

kai, e pain the aboki oooo

you can hang in your pain for all i care aboki.

Coldie:

Is the east rich?

backbencher:
It isn't just Bauchi state...it would soon be every other state.

At the end, prices for airtime, beer, and so on would go up, as each and every state collects VAT on each and every product.

Then we would all be begging the FIRS to come and be the only sole collector of VAT.

p.s I don't mind each and every state collecting VAT...but the thing is, it is going to mean higher prices for everyone...and most Nigerians don't like higher prices.
Imagine all states collecting VAT on things like airtime, food, snacks, electricity, etc etc....the companies they collect VAT from would pass on the cost to the end CONSUMER. And we all won't be able to do nowt about it.
Plus that VAT rivers and lagos are collecting..is for their states...it isn't going to most other Southern states.

P.S 2: Most states aren't rich. And as their costs go up...so does their VAT. And that means...higher prices for everyone. Not just in Bauchi...Lagos and Rivers. Oil money is not enough for all of us.


PS3. TO anyone quoting this comment

1.I am a Southerner

2. I think that each and every state collecting VAT is a good idea. Because u;ltimately most states have poor tax to gdp ratios and they all have to go up

3.But I also know that it would lead to higher prices in the long term. And I know most of you cannot afford the high prices if states..not just the North..but all the Southern states, have to collect VAT.

So if you are quoting me to tell me off for supporting the North...sorry, wrong person.

Shusher:


Prices will remain the same. I'm sure the Fed govt would still regulate the rate across all states.

Other states need to think on how to generate their own IGR without baby sitting from the fed. Govt.
We have too many lazy thinkers in the country especially in government.

So much space and lands in this country and they aren't utilizing it but rather wait for handouts.

Denmark sustains its econmy through diary production! Dairy!

backbencher:
The fun thing about this thread is that most of my fellow Southerners are here to crow over the parasitic North.

One of the great myths that many SOutherners believe is that the North is responsible for the underdevelopment of Nigeria, and that if the South was 1) free of the North 2) controlled its resources 3) seceeded from the North....it would look like Dubai.

Well, the truth is, most African countries are underdeveloped because most African countries do not produce goods and services from their raw materials. We sell the raw materials to foreign countries...who make goods and services at a value higher than what we sold the raw material for , and then they sell it back to us....at higher prices...and make more profit.

All Nigerian states are parasites. YES...all Nigerian states, including the South East, SOuth West, and South South are as parasitic as the North...which itself refuses to recognise it's parasisitism. Ask any state or tribe what they produce for the world market...and they will start singing 'Agricuture, mining and oil'.....like it is earning us enough money self.

My last post is for all those jumping up and down saying that the North is parasitic, as well as for the Northerners too who come to tell the SOuth that 'we own you' and we produce your food. You guys should know that you can only crow if your state is producing things like cars, computers, planes, electrical appliances, and so on..for the world market. Until then, you have no right to call anyone parasite. You are all the same. And it makes me sad as a Nigerian that our biggest business is importing and selling imports...

Coldie:

Is the east rich?

adamsmith914:
Lazy thing, like father like son? No value you add to humanity? Go & carry the resources mumudey, it is our own, selfish creature.

skywalker240:

upon all my comments the Idiot aboki still thinks am ibo.

i dont expect abokis to reason straight, am not supprised.

soon our oils will not be used to develop the lands of the parasites and leeches and dumb brained organisms. So sweet.

oya idiot aboki kill yourself.

Shusher:


Prices will remain the same. I'm sure the Fed govt would still regulate the rate across all states.

Other states need to think on how to generate their own IGR without baby sitting from the fed. Govt.
We have too many lazy thinkers in the country especially in government.

So much space and lands in this country and they aren't utilizing it but rather wait for handouts.

Denmark sustains its econmy through diary production! Dairy!

adamsmith914:
Mumurist is producing crude oil Internal Generated Revenue?

adamsmith914:
One of The very few sensible post.

Emergingnation:
We don't care, as far as we contributing sth into the the federal coffer, unlike your backwards and parasitic region that contribute nothing

backbencher:


Thank you, but beyond that, I want you and whoever reads this post to think.

We are not a productive people. It makes me ashamed as a Nigerian that we use phones and computers pass Africa, yet we do not have an indigenous economy making all these things.

Instead we all...and that includes you and me...want to share oil money. Well, we better wake up.

Lordofalmajiri:
Emperor Wike bad sha

tommy589:


At least they have the human capital. Not that I have the statistics but over 50% can read and write,even if they move outside the east

Emergingnation:
We don't care, as far as we contributing sth into the the federal coffer, unlike your backwards and parasitic region that contribute nothing

Coldie:

So east get human capital pass north?


Don’t make me laugh.

If u want to know who contributes more to Nigeria it’s visible to see, when north stopped foodstuffs from coming down south for just few days inflation went up, it could be felt all over the south, but east have been doing back to back seat at home, no single sector of the Nigerian economy had been affected, what does that tell u?

dozymars:
Trying to reap where they did not sow.
The beer you destroy in the North have VAT on them, refund them all.

Godons1:


Na the 4 Eastern States go suffer am pass. Cause they are the only States that generate ZERO VAT, ZERO IGR and they contribute ZERO to the Nigerian Economy.