₦airaland Forum

able88:
You just blacklisted a beautiful country. How long have you lived there to know all these?
Or is it hearsays?

MyAmericandream:
Na only you talk the truth.

CuteMercury:
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, so by next year or next two years, it is now 100% certain that i will leave for the United States of America.

Though i am educated but what i have come to understand is that in our world today, most especially in the United States of America, learning a skill is very Very important and you can can never go broke or jobless if you have certain skills in the United States of America.

So i want to use the rest of this year to acquire a skill that will be of great help to me when i get to America.

So i have decided to learn interior home and office designing and decorating.

I want to ask if acquiring a skill of interior design is the best for me or what are the top skills you think i can acquire or someone can acquire before travelling to the United States of America.

favor914:
Nigeria a mockery? Only poor people say that, You are very ignorant, do you know what it is to have 200 million people in a region, Nigeria’s Population makes over half of West Africa, Obama chose to go to Ghana good luck to him, Lagos Economy alone, & GDP is bigger than Ghana’s.

Austindark:
Arrangeee things....

Anyway congratulations. At least this goes into the "list of positives" in 2020.

squash47:
After this man go dey claim Christian.

Yet, he donated money to a group and he is sounding trumpet.

I think say true Christian's are not supposed to be sounding trumpet if Dem do donation ?


This Bros too dey claim wise man.

einsteine:
They will keep posting it because of people like you. You don't like a topic, why go in there to type over 50 words of complaint.

kikero:
Someone who gets it.

Too bad I have just one like to give your post.

To add some meat to the bones

1. Our tax to GDP ratio is 5.8 %. South Africa is 23%

2. We spent less than $3 billions on education. South Africa is spending $23 billion.

The problem is Nigerians want awoof.

naijaking1:
The wisest counsel to heal Nigeria's problems.
Our founding fathers were poor students of sociology and psychology, that's why working for government in Nigeria means an opportunity to rob the system (yourself included ) dry.
Whether we pay formal taxes or through VAT, corruptions, ineptitude, embezzlement, etc is a not even the case, the case is that Nigerians, every adult is not taxed in a way for them to take ownership of their own country. Unfortunately, we discovered oil, or what the Venezuelans call devil's grease of corruption, and every thing went from bad to worse.

A fair taxing system will reduce and probably eliminate corruption, because if that 1 billion naira you're going to embezzle came directly off the pockets of your home people who would eagerly waiting for you with sharp objects when you come home to display your ill gotten wealth. But when steal the amount from Abuja oil money and run home to your village, instead of them asking you, "my son, how did you make this money" they fall for the old notion that government is national cake deserving to looted, and that you have indeed gotten their own share. On the contrary, imagine stealing #10,000 contributed by your poor folks at home at #100 a person!

Another benefit of measured taxation is that it will once and for all solve the problem of proper census , and this probably why it will never happen at least under the present dispensation. If every adult in a village pay #1 tax a year, it will automatically help with census estimation and planning.

A formal tax will also reduce the need for many underground levies currently in place of which the corrupt government is going to fail to give a full account of.

Inteltower:
this write up is foolish & valueless

so those small businesses who pay business premises, local govt and eswama aren't taxes right ?

you talk of other nations but fail to point out the roles some of their leaders played to motivate their citizens to pay tax and hold them accountable

just don't know the bird that pooped on your thought to write this

Mightyodi:
My guy if they looted indirect tax, is it direct tax they won't loot. Let's stop shifting our brains to thinking we should emulate Western world, when our mind-set has no changed. For instance, pension money is with Government, how far? So that go and read an epistle how Eupore or Western world develop, then you will just want to push the gains, and say we should do same, when you have not acknowledge our peculiarity when it comes to on-doing ourselves

FrLukas:
I'm not a Constitutional lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that paying of tax exempts some low wage earners.

We prolly would need a Constitutional lawyer to help us out with that.

If your monthly take home pay is less N10,000 would you be expected to pay tax?

Those hawking gala in traffic, are they also expected to pay tax?

By the way, see these two statements by you:





What do you want me to make of them...?

The raw rice and other imported foodstuffs that you buy in the market already carry their own additional import duty.

This is shifted on the end buyer who buys for consumption.

Nigerians pay Tax.

Let me say that again, Nigerians are taxed.

Include the other little deductions that Banks make on behalf of the CBN on your accounts and you'll realize that Nigerians pay way too much to the government without a corresponding return.

Let's assume that you are correct and 60-70% of Nigerians don't pay tax at all.

What have the politicians done with the tax paid by the remaining 30-40% of taxpayers?

What have we done to the politicians?

Ikennamurphy:
You're shifting goal post from Nigerians not paying tax to not paying only income tax.. You're a fraud Mr man

GamalNasser:
Yes when you buy Garri you pay produce tax which is a type of VAT ..when you buy sugar , make calls buy petrol you pay taxes on them

Ikennamurphy:
Those other ones still pay tax when buying goods because custom already taxed them.. Is that difficult to understand.. No goods isn't taxed in Nigeria

GamalNasser:
Hi

Stop saying nonsense ..VAT is TAX ..VAT is type of tax and personal income tax is also another type of tax .. infact VAT is a more powerful tax than personal income tax can ever be

Ikennamurphy:
We pay taxes already.. I pay tax from source including others.. Haven't u worked before? You write like you don't have experience

Ikennamurphy:
Stop typing like u live in moon.. Even if they embezzle it the citizens are docile to see anything.. With what is Happening in Nigeria they should be a revolt, so will it just take only tax payment to revolt?

Don't be intelligent by half

Ikennamurphy:
Lol.. Even if Nigerians pay tax every second the politicians will still embezzled it

Abohboy:
That’s not the tax he is talking about, in the U.K they have income tax where a specific percentage of all the money you make go to the government, they also have council tax, where a fixed rate is taken from everyone living in thst council and they use that money to build houses roads, schools, hospitals etc, in the U.K they have all of that and more, only 10 million Nigerians pay income tax. Which creates 27 billion dollars for Nigeria if 100 million Nigerians paid tax than Nigeria s budget would by 270-310 billion dollars, but we don’t that’s why Egypt and South Africa have higher budgets than us because their citizens pay income tax more than Nigerians do. And his point is when your money is being stolen by politicians then you will have a Problem, for now it is just the revenue made from resources in the country. So you don’t really care about it.

FrLukas:
1) I wonder where you got that figure from, 60-70%

I'd like to know the data you're relying upon.

2) It is only when you actually have a job that you can pay tax and collect TIN. Will you go and steal because you want to pay tax? No!

3) Whether they give you TIN or not o, the point is, you are paying money that they call tax which otherwise you wouldn't have to pay.

Maybe you don't know that the various VATs that you pay somehow finds its way to the coffers of the government.

FrLukas:
It's an illusion that Nigerians don't pay tax.

Go and buy jollof rice at Chicken Republic and check the receipt they print out for you.

You'll see VAT = Value Added Tax.

Nigerians pay tax on almost everything they buy.

Not to talk of those who work in the civil service, teachers, doctors etc who do PAYE Pay As You Earn, where your tax is deducted from source.

I'm also sure private companies also pay taxes.

joyandfaith:
every Nigerian is paying tax- stamp duty, paye, vat, market levies etc. people steal with impunity.