₦airaland Forum

Sammy07:
How will a state run without enough IGR?

or you want him to keep borrowing like Buhari?

Some of una economics self, Abi no be the same economics, pub. Fin, macro eco, econometrics we do for school

frugal:
The same state Obi ran without borrowing a single kobo and still left huge sums of money for the next guy? How did he do it? Did he tax the people to death to generate IGR?

XerXers:
SE economy is run by informal sector. This is why it has high GDP but low IGR. Soludo should understand the peculiarities of the state before joining the IGR bandwagon

seguno2:
Raise fees for universities without free education for all children in primary and secondary schools?
So what are they doing with the IGR collected from the people, as well as allocations and loans? Did Awolowo and the LOBOO governors have so much money when they provided free education, as every japa country still does?

XerXers:
SE economy is run by informal sector. This is why it has high GDP but low IGR. Soludo should understand the peculiarities of the state before joining the IGR bandwagon

BossGerald:
Igr without any improvement in the lives of ogun state residents...bad roads everywhere

Show me a picture of your cities better than Owerri, stop your nonesense igr shit that abiodun has embezzled.

XerXers:
SE economy is run by informal sector. This is why it has high GDP but low IGR. Soludo should understand the peculiarities of the state before joining the IGR bandwagon

gypsey:
Your cousin is not the only person paying taxes in the UK, i have being paying taxes since i turned 18 in the UK, not every wages are taxed, if your cousin wants to work 80 hours a week he will pay high taxes, but if he works 20 hours a week he will not pay taxes, Soiudo is going about forcing people who are struggling to make ends meet to pay taxes. Did your cousin also tell you that he doesn't pay for hospital bills and he can receive out of work benefit if he wasn't working? Is Soludo offering these benefits in Anambra? Soludo is a goon

zionstaar75:
so working 4 hours a day is what?if he taxes people and they don't see what he's doing with the money fine but just accusing him for taxing people is hogwash.

Well.. if your cousin don't want to pay taxes he should work less hours, as i have explained taxes are paid acording to earnings, if i am jobless, i cannot be taxed, if my earnings are not enough to pay my bills i cannot be taxed. I am not accussing him of taxing people,.my point is he is chasing after the wrong people for taxes and using guns to force people to pay, that is wrong, in Naigeria if Soludo forces me to pay taxes this month next month i might shut my shop, naigeria is not like UK where people are guaranteed work most Naigerians are wheel barrow pushers, market women and food stuff petty traders, if you support paying taxes i ask you again, have you paid your own taxes?

Sammy07:
But of truth.

Anambra is currently choking of tax.

I don't know why media is just reporting it,

for like 2 weeks now

VaginaMiners:
See this ungrateful refugee
Why not go back to your shit hole with good roads

Odin13:
Bro dem no reach

All those imo and Abia people

Observe how their thread they die

They need to keep opening thread after thread and none the make sense

Obi will lose Anambra

E sure

Anambrains are not bingos

ElSudani:
Paying your taxes is one of your legal responsibilities to the state. How much tax is a different argument, but taxes you must pay.

StrongandMighty:
Soludo goofed this time around..
It's always very important to chose your battles wisely

Hollysaint:
Are you from Anambra?
Go to any any Anambra group on Facebook it's filled with complain about taxes.Keke operator's went on strike because of 15,000 tax.Please verify it and you will see that this is true.

gypsey:
Not nercerssarily, for a government to tax me, they must explain to me why i am been taxed, they cannot wake up one day and start collecting taxes just because they want, Soludo should start by taxing high earners like the so called celebrities who are flashing their cash on social medias and big businesses not harrassing barrow pushers and keke drivers, Soludo should go to main market onitsha,Old moto parts and New parts Nkpor, Electronics line in Onitsha or Old parts Obosi, Medicines market, Mechanic workshops and see if he will not lose support, him and his gun carrying thugs will be beaten up at these places i mentioned.

IfnobeGod20:
Any governor that want to use Lagos model to collect tax in his state, is digging his political grave. I have said and I will say it again. Lagos special features allow many things to be done without aisle and its also a business hub for any goods.
Charles Soludo has to look for alternative ways of generating revenue for the state before he pelt himself against the people of Anambra. It is better people outside should abuse you that he didn't increase Anambra IGR but you make your people comfortable and ease than putting strain on them.
All states cannot be like Lagos because of its peculiarity that cannot be seen in any state of the federation.
The economy is harsh now, tax increment should be gradual and not in a sweep as he does. From #500 to #3,000. That gap is much. He need to do that gradually based on the economy situation, as it improves.

EdiskyHarry:
If it was wike he would have been tagged a dictator, if it's El rufai he is a religious bigot,
But once it's soludo he is right according to some people

gypsey:
Well.. if your cousin don't want to pay taxes he should work less hours, as i have explained taxes are paid acording to earnings, if i am jobless, i cannot be taxed, if my earnings are not enough to pay my bills i cannot be taxed. I am not accussing him of taxing people,.my point is he is chasing after the wrong people for taxes and using guns to force people to pay, that is wrong, in Naigeria if Soludo forces me to pay taxes this month next month i might shut my shop, naigeria is not like UK where people are guaranteed work most Naigerians are wheel barrow pushers, market women and food stuff petty traders, if you support paying taxes i ask you again, have you paid your own taxes?

Realist12:
You'd be surprised the kind of attacks Soludo will face in the coming days . All his policies will be attacked , nothing good will come out from his government even if he paves the road gold and copper, how dare he criticize Obi.
H.E Soludo should brace up for Buhari level of criticism in the coming days .

Sammy07:
Mini or mega.

A state and country cannot run without enough money.

Except they keep on borrowing.

Why do you think developed countries tax her people seriously??

Cos they want to reduce borrowing

LZAA:
No
They tax them seriously because the economy is strong enough
I don't know how some of you reason
Economically you are correct but common sense always trumps economics at some point
That is the reason you have rebates and reliefs and covid checks
Do you get the picture now?
Also like someone rightly said the informal sector drives the SE economy
If you try taxing it to death you will meet massive resistance
That aside i really pity Anambra ,imo and abia states
[b]Obi and mbakwe aside,those states have been governed by i.mbecile[/b]s

Kobonaire234:
I get what you are saying, but the harsh truth is, everyone living in a state, must be taxed..the poor inclusive, or most states are going to be broke.

I noticed you defended taxation in developed countries by saying that they 'are sure of a job'. Well, I got news for you....many of those people complain about not being paid a living wage. Many complain about how high taxes are , and how they suffer.

The truth is we cannot earn enough money for all our needs by selling oil or agric or any other raw materials because one big issue with them is that their prices fluctuate, and as such are never at a level that can sustain us. (The reason why Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990 was because oil prices were too low to sustain Iraq, and he thought that by taking over Kuwait, the Iraqi nation would get more oil money for its needs.).

The UK has a lot of good amenities ...because tax rates are very very very high. Free health care? High taxes. Good roads..high taxes, and tolls. You see the picture. (Even the BBC....everyone, including foreign residents, pays TV licence fees. And yes, it costs money, and yes, it is a major expense. And recently they included people over 75 years of age. That is why the BBC looks like a modern station despite being a government run business...).

Nigeria has problems because of bad leaders....and one of the signs of bad leadership is pretending that we can live from the revenue selling oil. The thing is, at best we can earn less than 100billion dollars per annum IF oil is around 100-120 dollars per barrel. IF. Meanwhile we need at least 3 times that before we can get up to UK or Saudi level of living.

Soludo is being realistic. Either he starts charging taxes....or he is going to have to take loans to supplement the income he gets from der FAAC. The real reason why most of your governors take loans, apart from the mass stealing they do...is because they want to avoid taxing everyone in their state at a high rate. Soludo is too much of a technocrat to do that.