₦airaland Forum

greypencils:
Funding for Hajj and Mosques is still a manageable problem. The major problem is their politicians stashing everything in their bedrooms and buying mansions for their concubines and their bastard children in major cities all over the world. You have to wonder what states like Yobe, Jigawa, Katsina, Zamfara, Borno have to show despite the humongous funds allocated to these states.

i only used funding of hajj and building of mosques to represent the ones that are hard to prove like outright looting. In principle, they are all wasteful spendings that does nothing for the people.

They dare not. Even tax sharing is making them jittery talkless of the whole damn cake being taken away.

Who erected the billboard? Or is it the popular BillBoard Charts?

No reference to northerners here.

Ho do i cook at night? This mist be for business people who run in daytime.

siofra:
Nigerian men are becoming shameless

Because tell me why you would ask for a girl's number but not pay for her food in a restaurant?

This ugly, smelly cultist (yes he's a cultist, he was hailing his friend in lingo and flying colours) asked for my number yet didn't offer to pay for my food. Who does that?

Like do men not know things like this might make the girl look at him twice and maybe save his number in her phone for real.

Like it's so disgusting when Nigerian men don't offer to pay for women stuff🙄

I will NEVER consider you if you come to toast me at the mall, a shop or restaurant and not pick up my bill.

kukuma carry your calabash and squat beside the road make we know sey you be beggar with some coke-bottleness.

The idea of LGBTQ in football and sports generally is rubbish.

Esutega or Jesutega?

Sheuns:
Afghanistan straight.

From local afghan to intl.

alanto:
Two reasons. Tbough I earn more than the 800k a year. (Meaning I will continue paying tax) It makes sense that people earning less will not be taxed going forward.

Second reason is. Most of the time when VAT stats are released it feels like Lagos generate most VATs, like other states are not trying to do much, mean while these other states are constitutionally shortchanged for Lagos.

It's a welcome development. It will also give a real insight of activities going on in the states. And the states will be richer.

It's an insult to a place like Imo to be said to have contributed meager N200m in VAT whereas most of the things consumed in the state were unjustly taxed by Lagos, Rivers and Oyo.

The proposed bill is fair. Very fair to all.

I see Ogun earning way more in VAT generation than it's presently doing. Same for other states with population and commercial activities.

The richer you are the more tax you pay. The poor pay absolutely no tax except VAT on purchased item which is not a bad idea.

you should have used Imo ves Anambra because Anambra has industries and Imo has almost none. Stop letting the hate of Lagos blind you.

Acidosis:
I disagree. Nigerians have always been poor and poor countries (with or without subsidy) are known to have the highest birthrates. While hardship might lead to a drastic decline in birth rates, it will also and ultimately result in a higher death rate. More people may no longer afford healthcare, and everyone, including healthcare providers, will begin rationing resources. This means that access to quality care will be compromised, and even feeding the "few" who remain could become a significant challenge. Literacy and quality education are the only sustainable solutions.

it is a relative thing. What about imigrants posing as Nigerians?
Dont forget food subsidy of over N1 Trillion annually.
When you consider the per capita GDP, it becomes even clearer. Though your points hold, the impact in my opinion, doesn't outweigh the other factors.

Even in the kingdom of darkness n corruption, there is division of labour so the kingdom can stand and never be divided against itself.

RABU.

They will rather wait until crude in SS dry up before thinking of tampering with their constitution they have held us back with.

This is part of what APC should be targetting to simplify dry season farming. Mass produce irrigation kits from the plastic Dangote refinery releases and give to farmers cheaply so production doesn't stall for 6 months of no or little rain. They are building Flyover and highways.

..... all to focus on Ukrainian land grabbing.

What was the former colour of the armband? Why change it to a controversial colour in a sport built around entertainment, recreation and fun?
Even the colours dont allow for good contrast that makes the text readable.

When all the manufacturers in Lagos and Ogun move to Port Novo, Benin Republic or Ghana/Togo, i will see how the north will ask Ghana and Togo for VAT of what the northern Nigerian people consumes.

No noise but if it was tax issue, noise all over. Same north that wastes public fund on hajj and mosques, suddenly sees tax reform as a move to impoverish them. Banditry is the least of their problems.

Thats equal to forcing them to identify openly with LGBTQ.
It is wrong.

The bill is more than Tax increase. It reshapes the tax sharing among other things.

Maobichek:
I hope this your assertion is genuine as it's being said; if it's so, Aba and Abia state will benefit from the reform. Aba is doing well in production of wears.

when they make shoes sell and make profit. They pay taxes and that means more money for the development of Abia. That is only possible if the money Abia state govt and people laboures stays largely in Abia and not goes to sokoto or jigawa.

Hmmm.

MadPolitician:
Every single oil producing states can easily stand on their own with their earnings, if you take into consideration the fact that all the oil monies collected by the government from the multi nationals, should be for the states, who can then pay certain levels of taxes to the center. There was nowhere it was agreed that the federal government should be taking such monies. The military willed that barbarity into law.

So it's jejune to say that the states are unproductive when they're the ones filliing your federal purse with dollars everyday. You don't come from Ogbomosho as the president to collect all oil receipts coming from Imo or Abia States, and then turn around to accuse the states of being incapable to stand alone. They can stand alone with their oil. You Gerrit? It is you and the federal government who actually can't stand alone if issues are dealt with critically and honestly.

lies.

Takeaway that one cannot swallow.

1999 constitution was writen in a worse place. The praying mat of a terrorist.

aswani:
Because it rewards hard work and identifies lazyness.

It will also reduce the near absolute dependency on (oyel generated) hand outs from central government.

I concur.
It should help propel states to see themselves as the next industrial hub from where goods sold all over ecowas and west africa is manufactured.

doggedfighter:
You must be one of them to know his children

and you are .. ?

Obviously a rich man.

Tinubu is trying to fetch water into a basket. The system is leaky and any attempt to put funds into it will only yield negligible impact for the populace. Corruption has to be drastically reduced before tax increase will appeal to average Nigerian.

The relationship betwee a BMC agent and APC is more romantic than business. If you know you know.

Cash has become scarce already. That means more electronic transactions and thus more levy accruing to the FG.