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Tax Committee Chairman in the Mud. No response from him
https://twitter.com/eadewunmi/status/1678068183029239810?s=46&t=50Yog5beNQZJZs1HW3l18A

Adewunmi
@eadewunmi
Taiwo, your bias is making you misinform. It’s sad for a PwC partner. SSB taxes are in >100 countries. Nigeria is the 4th largest sugary drinks consuming country on earth. It’s not a sugar tax. So quit the BS. It’s an SSB tax & I will address the rest of your misinformation here.

You want to fool people with the per capita sugar consumption narrative when you know the taxes are about added-sugar and Nigeria is one of the highest consumers. Around the world, there is no evidence that SSB taxes lead to job losses. SA, Mexico etc. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/477251593747849783/pdf/Business-Employment-and-Productivity-Impacts-of-Sugar-sweetened-Beverages-Taxes.pdf

The economic impact of obesity in Nigeria is $2.37 billion and SSB taxes actually boost national productivity and public health according to global evidence. It averted more than 8,000 type 2 diabetes deaths in South Africa. You can’t spin this https://cseaafrica.org/changing-perspectives-ssb-tax-is-key-to-addressing-obesity-in-nigeria/

Now back to the tax, you tried to confuse the 2021 Finance Act which proposed N20 but was reduced to N10 which passed after consultations. For the 2022 Finance Act, there was a proposed 20% ad valorem tax that people like you criticized. Why are you lying?

The funny thing is that you either need education or you are a lobbyist intentionally confusing people. It helps to disclose that my team worked on the policy advocacy that led to Nigeria’s SSB tax and had input in all aspects of it. You wouldn’t big man your way out here, Mr.

And now that I have disclosed my own work in pushing for the SSB tax, a globally endorsed and a pro-humans, pro-health fiscal policy in Nigeria, can you confidently say that you (PwC) weren’t advising a manufacturers association/lobby group to fend off this specific tax?

SSBs taxes are a @WHO fiscal policy best buy to prevent obesity, diabetes and NCDs, which affects millions of Nigerians. But for you it’s profit over people and you are proving my fears right. Get educated on other public policy issues
https://www.who.int/news/item/13-12-2022-who-calls-on-countries-to-tax-sugar-sweetened-beverages-to-save-lives

When a biased expert shits on globally adopted and proven fiscal policy for health using razz words, then you know that he is either unlearned about fiscal policy outside of the corporate world or just parroting his sponsors talking points. Good luck, dude.

Hey @taiwoyedele .PwC was also the topic of investigation in the US over a government engagement that profited their clients. Now answer, do you have conflicts or not?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/business/accounting-firms-tax-loopholes-government.html

Violence is synonymous with a Broom Party. INEC should please rise to this.

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Southern Kaduna as a whole has been under Siege. These consists of the Christian area and they are calling for a change. INEC please rise to the occasion.

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