So says a slave to his master .....awon werey pataki

LordofNaija:
“If we reduce the purchasing power of the people, we can further slow down the economy. Let’s widen the tax net. Those who are not paying now, even if it is inclusive of Bola Tinubu, let the net get bigger and we take in more taxes, and that is what we must do in the country."

Zacheus will be envious of Tinubu if he was born in this era. Let the tinibulation continue

Is Zaccheus not ThiefNuibu’s taxman in FIRS

The problem is not the tax burden, but failure to utilise tax payers money for the benefit the people,even the citizens knocking the government are cupable, you go to motor parks and markets, people pay daily taxes to parks and markets but this places always looking like shit hole,in sane countries, taxes are paid and the impact felt by the people

People who lack innovate ideas to kickstart an economy turn to taxes
You can’t tax your way into development
You must innovate. Infact the best companies were created under tax break scenarios not heavy taxation

That is why it is the only state in the country with an electric train plus I am yet to see a single citizen complain about taxes in Lagos abi it is not the same Lagos I de stay.

Beautifulday:
The only thing lagos economists know is expand the tax base. Nothing more.

Lagos Format: Expand Tax Net, then at the end, you juxtapose so much revenue with hugely unimaginable indebtedness...na wetin happen to so much publicised IGR, revenue & over taxations funds exploited from the people?

helinues:
Sebi we no want make government dey borrow unnecessarily right, then the other options na to increase the tax

The taxes that ThiefNuibu has been increasing for Lagosians in the past 25 years have yielded what government services and utilities compared with Jakande’s 4 years

Can you please let us know.

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

Orobadmeat:
The problem is not the tax burden, but failure to utilise tax payers money for the benefit the people,even the citizens knocking the government are cupable, you go to motor parks and markets, people pay daily taxes to parks and markets but this places always looking like shit hole,in sane countries, taxes are paid and the impact felt by the people

You are a wiseman who has identified the problem- horrifying low expectations of the masses.

How do we solve this problem

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

Houseontherock1:
I'm sure nobody will refuse to pay taxes if things are working well...but when you can't even feed your family, the last thing on your mind is tax

How is government supposed to feed your family if you don’t work

Putinofrussia:

anonimi,expanding tax net doesn't translate to increment .
It only means more people liable to pay tax will be encapsulated in the tax net.
Tax is good if the government will shun corruption and be transparent.

The poster is racoon , why are you calling anonimi, hahaha 🤣

anonimi:


Is Zaccheus not ThiefNuibu’s taxman in FIRS

Junior Zaccheus

I have said this a million times, Tinubu and his so called economic team(90% of whom are the so called city boys) came into power on a pedestal of pure unfiltered arrogance, thinking they have the prowess and ingenuity to solve the nation's challenges, but nearly 12 months down the lane, their arrogance has crashed virtually every realm of the country. How can this man called Sanwo olu be talking of broadening the tax base when the same is used to only fund our deranged politicians lifestyle not improving the standard of living of the bottom class.

Tax Base in a nation where the average salary is 30 racks a month😹

The way Lagos State taxes companies
and industries to death in Lagos, they
are now bringing to national level to
kill Nigerians and Nigerian businesses❗️❗️😐



The harsh business environment in Lagos
caused many multinationals to exit Lagos
to Ghana and other West African countries.


APC has turned NNPC into their personal
businesses and have cornered all the
revenue from NNPC into their personal
pockets and want Nigerian to bear the
revenue shortfalls resulting from the stealing.


We are watching❗️❗️❗️😐😐😐

Putinofrussia:

anonimi,expanding tax net doesn't translate to increment .
It only means more people liable to pay tax will be encapsulated in the tax net.
Tax is good if the government will shun corruption and be transparent.

Will the govt ever shun corruption & be transparent?? Let them do that first before talking about tax. Where is the money saved from subsidy removal?? The govt is still borrowing! This govt has spent 1 year in office with increment across almost every sector & yet minimum wage is still 30k?? Na God go judge una... Wicked souls

Yes tax collectors and Co enterprises.

Collecting multiple taxes in a declining economy is brilliant.

collect taxes on zero value offered

anonimi:


How is government supposed to feed your family if you don’t work

The Holy book says that if you don't work, you will not eat, so we are all commanded to work but if for some reasons either due to unemployment and some folks cannot work, the government should provide some kind of support to the unemployed pending when they can ge back to work but you might say that the government is doing that already but it is not enough because most of the programs directed at supporting the poor masses have been rendered useless due to your egunje, saboteurs and your criminal politicians managing such programs eg Your Big Sister Edu / Humanitarian affairs minister

E neva do??!

I wonder which economy they are building that's always getting worse or are we not in the same Nigeria

Guz: Pls FACT-CHECK the DEBT PROFILE of Lagos State from 1999 to date, From Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode to Sanwo-Olu, then juxtapose it with the so-called IGR, Revenue & Over-Taxations running into trillions, what you will deduce is: THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE or O boy this is Skewed Basket Treasury...

If you want to go further, audit their various projects with the amount they PASTED on them ("plus including" hosting of certain famous website), as a professional in Project Management & Controls or even in QAQC, Auditing, or by (UoM, BoQs), or even Expert J., o boy/girl, u go know say Lagos State has always been run by .....NALS!

In conclusion, their generation enjoyed FREE EDUCATION as initiated by Sage Pa Awo... To pay back, they want to punish the people with Over-Taxations, worse still, funds unaccounted for!

Putinofrussia:

anonimi,expanding tax net doesn't translate to increment .
It only means more people liable to pay tax will be encapsulated in the tax net.
Tax is good if the government will shun corruption and be transparent.

When he was told to test mic, what was his interpretation? Now he's told to expand tax net, what do you think he will interpret it as? Look, until you people admit that this man is clueless about running a country, only then can we begin to make heads way.

Beautifulday:
The only thing lagos economists know is expand the tax base. Nothing more.

our turn or turn, see the only thing South West regime is offering "TAX upon TAX".

Where is the education? My happiness is that the south West is not also spared.

You want to expand the tax base after impoverishing most Nigerians.The mistake has been made since 2015 and that mistake is accepting the unknown change from miserable gang of robbers and political rogues.

Racoon:
They are subsiding hajj with a whooping #90B but removing fuel/electricity subsidies.They ain't cutting cost of governance, but are still padding budgets, engaging in spurious borrowings to steal and posting phantom IGR figures.

Meanwhile, inflation is on a galloping two-digits free falls. Clueless economic illiterates. “No nation ever grew more prosperous by taxing its citizens beyond their capacity to pay.” - former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Nigerians barely pay tax. All this complaining you people are doing is just hypocrisy.

Meanwhile I can show you where Peter Obi too said exactly the same thing. Everyone knows we need to collect more taxes but unfortunately people choose to play politics with it.

https://twitter.com/PeterObi/status/1622521800339881986?t=nOCReXiLnkfQbRcTMrMDLA&s=19

Racoon:
https://gazettengr.com/sanwo-olu-says-nigerian-government-should-expand-tax-base-despite-untold-hardship/

Meanwhile:
"Economic hardship: Reduce Taxes Levies" Fashola Advises Sanwo-Olu 

https://www.thecable.ng/economic-hardship-reduce-taxes-levies-fashola-advises-sanwo-olu/amp/ nlfpmod

I don't know what is the problem of all this Lagos boys and taxes, you can clearly the economy is not doing well you're still talking about taxes, why don't they block all corruption avenue they would have enough funds to run this economy, but they have stolen money than half of the money appropriated how would the economy work, but still you want to steal from the people through taxes.

Racoon:
These mofos think they are smart. Like father like son. An apple does not always falls far from its tree. From what on ground the administration is already pointing to that direction. Like someone who steals what he doesn’t have any ideal about.

What are u even complaining about. Why should some people pay tax while others don't

Beautifulday:
The only thing lagos economists know is expand the tax base. Nothing more.

he called for tax expansion just because the more tax up there at the more revenue allocation to Lagos.
just be observant to see the pace of development in Lagos lately. their rail line kicked off after tinubu got to office in Abuja means so much but we are not woke to it because of the heavy hardship the man unleashed like father Christmas.

helinues:
Sebi we no want make government dey borrow unnecessarily right, then the other options na to increase the tax base

Yet they borrowed 2.2 billion. Even Lagos state still borrow money till date. Are you looking for a way to dribble yourself very well

He is just trying to rally support for the evil acts of this Tinubu regime

Baba Sanwo Olu doesn’t understand the concept of taxation. Else, he won’t be asking FG to expand tax base. The main question to be asked if FG is putting the money into good use. I pay taxes and I can’t see what I pay for. Taxation is not the only source of revenue to the Government.

Your mumuness if from Russia. Your weed is from Colombo and never from Kwale. Which one is first? Shun or eliminate corruption first and give the people job and watch them happily going to the tax office (would have been happening by now if uncorrupted Peter Obi is there) or tax away their placenta and intestine while wallowing in corruption, subsidising Hajj for 90bn, Tinubu disappearing every two weeks etc etc?

Putinofrussia:

anonimi,expanding tax net doesn't translate to increment .
It only means more people liable to pay tax will be encapsulated in the tax net.
Tax is good if the government will shun corruption and be transparent.