₦airaland Forum

Eh eh! So they were expecting the chairman to obey the constitution when they are practicing Sharia law there?

I used to think I was the only one thinking like this oo! I'm tired of hearing people claiming that it's Obj that brought mobile phone to Nigeria. I keep explaining to people that Obj was just lucky GSM came came to Nigeria when he was a president: it was just a coincidence. Nigeria was already overripe for GSM technology as at that time, so irrespective of who was the president, the technology would still come to Nigeria. But these people no go hear.

Flier:
As he did in Telecom,you are just like my illiterate friend that keep saying OBJ brought mobile phone to Nigeria
OBJ had nothing to do with mobile telecom than to issue licences,nothing to take credit for ,mobile phone is just like plasma TV and AKT Bulb,they are millennium technology

Actually the guy's comment you quoted is a different issue to my comment you quoted. What he said there is about the issue of oil companies having headquarters in Lagos and paying PAYE to Lagos instead of Bayelsa where their main area of operation his. I agree with with he said that Lagos state is entitled to PAYE of oil workers whose office is in Lagos while Bayelsa is entitled to PAYE of oil workers in Bayelsa.

But the point I made in my comment you quoted is that it is unfair for companies that render services like DStv, telecommunication companies, etc to pay VAT of services consumed in a particular state to another state just because the state they pay VAT to is where their head office is located. It is the state where the consumer of services resides that is entitled to collect the VAT. Or the revenue should be shared between the two states.

codemaniacs:
This quote below answers it

ajl:


This is simple but in Nigeria one plus one is often not two. Location of workers performing specific task for a company determines the state they pay tax to. If oilfield workers work directly in fields located in Bayelsa, then the tax go to Bayelsa. But only a fraction of oil industry workers work directly in oilfields. A bulk of them work in offices located elsewhere possibly in other states. Then those workers in offices pay tax to the state they are located in. How does Bayelsa State expect to receive income tax of oil industry workers that work and reside in Lagos? How senseless and greedy is that

datamillionaire:
Nigeria needs serious reformation in VAT law. I believe we are getting there.

It is wrong for a consumer who resides in Gombe state for example, to pay VAT on the service he consumes to another state simply because that's where the company's headquarters is located. That's somehow unfair to the state of residence of the consumer. At least, there should be a sharing of the VAT income between the state of residence of the consumer and the state where the company offering the service is headquartered.

I can now see that this VAT of a thing is far more complex than many of us realize and it's best managed if it is centralized, only that the way the income from VAT has been shared so far has been unjust to states who actually generates highest revenue. So I think amendment of VAT to make it more favorable and fair to states based on revenue they are able to generate is what is needed rather than each state collecting VAT by themselves. This is my opinion.

The idea of PAYE being paid to state of residence of the worker rather than where his place of work is located sounds foolish to me. That law should be amended!

Elliotwaveforec:
By residency rule, where the workers are is where they pay to.

In the case of oil companies, most of the workers at the top management level live in Lagos while those at the lower level are in Bayelsa state. This explains why the large chunk of the PAYE goes to Lagos.

Nigeria needs serious reformation in VAT law. I believe we are getting there.

It is wrong for a consumer who resides in Gombe state for example, to pay VAT on the service he consumes to another state simply because that's where the company's headquarters is located. That's somehow unfair to the state of residence of the consumer. At least, there should be a sharing of the VAT income between the state of residence of the consumer and the state where the company offering the service is headquartered.

I can now see that this VAT of a thing is far more complex than many of us realize and it's best managed if it is centralized, only that the way the income from VAT has been shared so far has been unjust to states who actually generates highest revenue. So I think amendment of VAT to make it more favorable and fair to states based on revenue they are able to generate is what is needed rather than each state collecting VAT by themselves. This is my opinion.

rottennaija:
This is the problem with VAT that is being discussed. It's because headquarters is cited on lagos, the VAT goes there and Lagos claims it. With the way states are going about the VAT issue! It seems they are ignoring or are ignorant of the value chains and simply what to take money that belongs to other states.

Poor woma!

If the man stays in Austria, what stops him from bringing you to Austria to at least live with him for awhile until you get a job and can stand on your own instead of him sponsoring to go to a country you know nobody?

Anyway, you can take the offer but beware! Don't take any package from him or anybody he recommend to you to deliver to anyone over there! We live in dangerous times.

The damned 'refineries' should be shut down with immediate effect! We can't afford to be losing and wasting billions like this.

Please let me count. I will get back to you

As for me, the first thing that came into my mind was that it's foolishness for a lady to marry well known chronic womanizer and expect that he would be faithful after marriage.

No matter how good a lady thinks she is at love making, a man who is a womanizer will always be a womanizer!

My concern is that, Nigerians being who they are, it's just a matter of time they will produce imitation and substandard one. Just look at what essential balm (aka Chinese rob) has become.

Oga, it's not God that created states. It's human in government that did that

Okay. Noted

Okay. Congrats

This is what happens when your 'friend' becomes your enemy.

That was fast.

Ok. Getting interesting

Shmm. What were they expecting before.