KHRIZ565:

This nonsense has to stop.
I can't imagine Akwa Ibom State being among the least, when they're one of the highest tax generators.

Flexherbal:
Every state should control their resources, simple.

southpole:
.

greenie77:


Let them be serious with taxation and let the masses be more serious with electing credible people into office, who would not mismanage the tax they are paying.

PENNYSWAP:



if the masses pay tax with their nose , they won’t elect an idiot to waste their hard earned money

FakeUnity:
Caseless, Sirjamo and Arrewa the hopeless and lazy abokeys don pick race from thread.

greenie77:


Very correct.

SlyDev:


Not only Northerners. The Nigeria Law is only effective in South West.

Positivepoint:


Value added tax is paid by the consumers of manufactured goods at the point of buying good or service not by the manufacturers of the goods and services.

The population of the north gives north an advantage as huge consumers.

U should first understand what vat is before u make such comment.

tollyboy5:

As a bonafide Lagosian the affairs of kogi has nothing to do with me.
My mayor Care is bt my state and the other 5 southwest state.

Sirjamo:
You don't know anything

Positivepoint:


South West contribution to vat is as a result central report of vat collection by HQ of major businesses.

Examples all Telco, banks, manufacturers whom have there HQ in Lagos pay VAT collected centrally from there HQ.


If u buy recharge card the vat is not paid in ur state but paid in Lagos.

The vat on ur bank transaction is paid in Lagos. Etc


The huge VAT remittance in Lagos is as a result of central collection and of vats paid by consumers from all over Nigeria collected band paid through corporation how's in Lagos.

Vat is paid buy consumers of products and services.

Decentralization of VAT will see IGR of other states imporve and that of Lagos reduce.

Positivepoint:



The distributor did not add any value thus cannot charge VAT, the distributor is only a sales channel from the manufacturer to the consumers nothing more and get commission for his channel. The manufacturers whom added value to products the they manufactured and sell are the only people required to charge VAT. Ur degree is questionable bro.

Positivepoint:


Wow u still don't get it.

When a Kano man buys indomie or soap made in Lagos he pays including VAT.

When a Katina man buys recharge card he pays including VAT.

When a gombe man buys Panadol he pays inclusive of VAT.


The vat paid by the above people is remitted not in there states but in Lagos centrally through there HQ.

Remember VAT is paid by the consumers of manufactured products and services at the point of purchase.

Olunmercy56:
End of the money. No developments, floods everywhere, poverty. All politicians are now looking at 2023

Positivepoint:



Well let me give u a simple ans, the poor still buy food.


Most manufacturers design there products for the poor north consumers in mind e.g everything sarchet products and small soda bottles, 100 naira recharge etc. Because the volume of sales from the poor north keeps most companies profitable.

Ur manufacturers are conscious of that already and u will be too soon.

North is little India

nameo:


Sorry....you are a "mindset" person.

I will pass.

You do not understand how VAT works Bruv. But you think you do. And that is OK. This is not my interest.

By the way, each state in America pay consumption tax(i think it is called Sales tax). We shouldnt be captured by our own "input-output" model to encourage indolence and laziness.

Are you a northerner tho? Are you young? Are you satisfied with the status quo esp as it affects the north? Do you not think that this status quo that your leaders have made you believe isis to your benefit relative to the south have left your region with some of the worst socio-economic indexes in the world comparable to war torn countries (poverty rate, unemployment rate, hunger index, terroism index, No of out of school children, illiteracy rate, incidence of communicable diseases, maternal mortality rate, etc)? Are you happy with these your leaders? Are you happy with the situation

rotadeco27:

Let them come and establish their plants in the north na. We are tired of this backwardness induced on other regions by the people who has nothing to offer than killings and other terrible acts

rotadeco27:

And so why are the northern state with large population having low VAT. Something is not adding up! Which ever, since it will be to their advantage there is no need to cry over it, they should even embrace it, we don't want their enormous VAT as we can see they have it too much due to their population.

Positivepoint:



Nope u don't understand the VAT is already inclusive at the point of purchase from the manufacturers,when u sell in jigawa u re only transferring the vat u paid to the manufacturers to the consumers because the are the final users.

Meaning the vat paid in Lagos is paid by the potential consumers of the products.

The dealer is just a channel or way to market for the manufacturers.

When he sale to jigawa consumers he is recovering his money inclusive tax paid and profit.

The tax in Lagos is on behalf of his potential consumers not the dealer.

Ibkhaleel001:
If the Niger Delta states & their governments, their drunk mentally lazy bandit governors, their insatiable & unrepentant greedy elders, politicians & militant leaders cornering everything meant for the people had utilized the 6 trillion naira NDDC funds, additional tens of trillions of naira from statutory allocations, 13% derivation allocations, ecological funds, Ministry of Niger Delta funds, royalties & rents etc in the past 20 years to build the economy & infrastructure of Niger Delta, they won't be today shamelessly moving in & out of courts in Nigeria over VAT from beer & Lagos will be nowhere near Delta, Rivers or Akwa Ibom in IGR.
Now, they are instigating a VAT war with FG to cover the monumental failure in delivering governance to their people & the mindless terrorism on the people of Niger Delta recently uncovered in NDDC.
If we the citizens of Niger Delta are not already doped silly by ignorant primitive contrived emotions these leeches feed us daily, we should by now be asking them questions!
We should be telling them to give account of the trillions they collected at least in the past 20 years first before talking about collecting VAT revenue.
We should be telling them to implement local government financial autonomy first before demanding for fiscal federalism.
We should be telling them to respect & not interfere in the independence of the state houses of assembly & state judiciaries which are the two organs of government empowered by the constitution to check the excesses & misappropriation of resources by the governors if we are to trust their demands for fiscal federalism.
But sadly, we are applauding the bandits called state governors & their rapacious elders, politicians & militant leaders accomplices raping us front & back as they lead us by the nose once again as always in another wild goose chase distraction from the real issues of our underdevelopment, stagnation & destitution in the midst of plenty in the Niger Delta.
A pathetic shame indeed!

Ibkhaleel001:
If the Niger Delta states & their governments, their drunk mentally lazy bandit governors, their insatiable & unrepentant greedy elders, politicians & militant leaders cornering everything meant for the people had utilized the 6 trillion naira NDDC funds, additional tens of trillions of naira from statutory allocations, 13% derivation allocations, ecological funds, Ministry of Niger Delta funds, royalties & rents etc in the past 20 years to build the economy & infrastructure of Niger Delta, they won't be today shamelessly moving in & out of courts in Nigeria over VAT from beer & Lagos will be nowhere near Delta, Rivers or Akwa Ibom in IGR.
Now, they are instigating a VAT war with FG to cover the monumental failure in delivering governance to their people & the mindless terrorism on the people of Niger Delta recently uncovered in NDDC.
If we the citizens of Niger Delta are not already doped silly by ignorant primitive contrived emotions these leeches feed us daily, we should by now be asking them questions!
We should be telling them to give account of the trillions they collected at least in the past 20 years first before talking about collecting VAT revenue.
We should be telling them to implement local government financial autonomy first before demanding for fiscal federalism.
We should be telling them to respect & not interfere in the independence of the state houses of assembly & state judiciaries which are the two organs of government empowered by the constitution to check the excesses & misappropriation of resources by the governors if we are to trust their demands for fiscal federalism.
But sadly, we are applauding the bandits called state governors & their rapacious elders, politicians & militant leaders accomplices raping us front & back as they lead us by the nose once again as always in another wild goose chase distraction from the real issues of our underdevelopment, stagnation & destitution in the midst of plenty in the Niger Delta.
A pathetic shame indeed!

eas01:

You an olodo oo. The FAAC allocated to the Niger delta is gotten from resources in their region. What is the northern contribution to the federal purse? Tell me. Your GDP is a function of southern resources and VAT.
The Nigerian delta militants are fighting for the right to own their land and resources. The not fighting to own Kano or sokoto are they? Unlike your herders that are fighting for the right to destroy people's farms. Meschewwww. If NDDC wastes money, it's not your business. It is their resources from their land. The illegal gold exports from zamfara doesn't benefit the south but your northern elite. Your dirty agriculture depends on southern resources. The south are net losers in Nigeria and the arewa aboki north - NE and NW are net gainers.
You contribute nothing. Your agriculture depends on southern money for investment, we in the south and middlebelt now buy from you. It ain't free. If you choose not to sell to us we can buy else where and even grow our food.
You all are leeches.

eas01:


I am gonna address your numerous comments in this reply.
First off, you keep talking about the North, the North.... I hope you not including the middle belt in your definition because Benue, Kogi, Kwara, and Plateau are not the north. Even Adamawa and Taraba in the geopolitical NE is not north. The north is the rest of the NE and NW. Aboki territory. Also you talk about population of the north been far more than the south. lol. I laugh in Arabic. NE and NW even if you include Taraba and adamawa is still not as populated as the rest of the country. Even if you add the middle belt to the north, yes the population might be higher but it ain't by much. We all know that the NE and NW have inflated fake numbers that don't exist.
Secondly, in economic terms the north has always been dependent on the south since almagamation. The British joined the northern and southern protectorate together because the north was in debt and backward so they needed the southern balance of payment to support the north. In the first and second republics, every region produced and contributed to the centre. The south was never dependent on the north. infact, the southern regions were always richer than the north.
Today the north is like a parasite on the south and middlebelt. You guys always talk about the north feeding the country. First off the investment money the FG puts into agriculture in the north is gotten from southern resources like oil, manufacturing.. The south invests in your agriculture, you sell to us and we buy. You ain't doing us any favours. Whatever money northern states have to spent is mostly gotten from on the south. the FAAC allocation is mostly from southern oil and VAT. You are net gainers, we are net losers. Most northern states will not survive without handout from southern resources and VAT. Your states are built on resources generated in the south. Your GDPs is because of southern money. If Nigeria breaks, you become Niger republic.
You boast about having the richest billionaires. A viable country is known by the strength of it's middle class , not it's billionaires. The middle class in this country is more than 85 percent Southerners and middlebelt to lesser extent. Even in the top richest list, there are more southern billionaires than northern billionaires.
On government appointments, alot of the numbers you highlighted are statutory. Buharis appointment has been lobsided in favour of the NE and NW.
Dude let's face it , Nigeria is kinda reflection to the wider world. You can't give what you don't have. There is no single Muslim country in the world that is first world, technological and an economic leader. The poorest countries in Africa re Muslim. The poorest regions in countries that have mixed Christians and muslims are the Muslim regions . So it's no surprise you guys cannot compete hence you seek to bring the rest of the country down. You have succeeded because for most of this. country's history the north has ruled mostly through military dictatorship and have bled this country dry.I hear hausa people are the most populous tribe but yet the fulanis who aren't even as many as the ijaws keep ruling for the north and in a good number of the NW and NE states. It's either the hausa population figures is. fraud or the hausa re just dumb.
Finally, close to 10% of Nigeria's GDP is remittance from abroad and the people sending the money are mostly southerners and middlebeltans by more than 90%. You guys that don't contribute to it will still get a larger share of the VAT contribution from remittances. Yet these arewa people will open their mouth and talk nonsense. Leeches.

Ibkhaleel001:
You lack common sense you dont even have the sense to understand my write up...you ended up writing trash full of lies and sentiment...anyway I dont blame you! You were brought up that way... brainwashed and programmed....


Chew on this...

VAT: This Jamboree Has To End.

With Nigeria’s scariest fault-line shaken by the brewing legal war over jurisdictional responsibility for collecting value-added tax (VAT), the reality of the long-avoided restructuring may finally be upon us. The debris already in the spotlight is the overlooked question of fiscal federalism, and we must thank Governor Nyesom Wike for the gathering storm.
Whatever the eventual outcome of the court case between Rivers State and the federal government, the wave has reached the slumbering policymakers in the North in a way it never did, and some of their reactions have been predictably embarrassing.

The South has had enough of spoon-feeding the North and the polarization that undercuts national politics in the past few years was powered by this disdain. If northern policymakers were paying attention to the countenance of their southern colleagues, and the indignity of being serially singled out as the stumbling block of Nigeria’s progress even by southern states that aren’t doing well, a roadmap for escaping this parasitism stereotype would’ve been long designed.

Despite the bad press and blame game, many northern states fare better than the very southern states quick to ridicule them and have demonstrated more capability in generating internal revenue. In its latest Annual State Viability Index (ASVI), the Economic Confidential developed the viability index of states based on each state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) as a percentage of its Federal Accounts Allocation (FAA) for the year and the results were interesting.
It’s unsurprising that only two northern states are among the top 10 most viable states, with Kaduna generating N50 billion compared to FAA of N124 billion representing 40 percent, and Kwara generating N19 billion compared to FAA of N77 billion representing 25.4 percent.

What’s shocking is that even terrorist-ravaged states like Zamfara generated more internal revenues than most southern states. Zamfara State ranks 12th, ahead of Ebonyi 16, Abia 20, Imo 21 and, unbelievably, oil-rich Bayelsa 36!


The North is capable of functioning independently. The example of Kaduna overtaking Kano in that ranking of viable states is a theory easy to analyze.
Before oil rents distracted northern political elites, the Native Authority system had far-reaching tax-collecting structures and a flourishing agrarian economy servicing the needs of the region. What the North achieved in that system is unfortunately still the high-point of the region today. Without oil rents, they built Ahmadu Bello University, which is still the largest in sub-Saharan Africa and Ahmadu Bello Stadium, one of the best sports facilities then. They also set up New Nigerian Development Company, the largest black-owned conglomerate in Sub-Saharan Africa then.
The North of that agrarian era was an industrial hub, as the policymakers built new cities, textile factories, hospitals and distinguished institutions, one of which was the prestigious Kaduna Polytechnic, which was also the largest of its kind in Africa south of the Sahara then. Their overly spoon-fed successors, unfortunately, lack this ambition and the reason is this jamboree bankrolled by the South which, evidently, is not sustainable.