₦airaland Forum

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:
I support taxations not just in the UK, i support taxations in Naigeria too, and the poor shouldn't be taxed, if anything taxea are used to look after the poor. how many politicians and celebrities pays taxea in Naigeria, Soludo should begin taxea from taxing his wealthy friends not harrasing poor people.

In the UK the government provide jobs and then tax workers, but Soludo have not provided any jobs but want to force taxes...
Did you also know that the UK government provides jobless people with money to live until they can find a job, Is Soludo doing the same?

Have you paid your taxes?

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

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 .

diplomat058:
What a joke

Ogun IGR alone is higher than that of all your five Hamlet states combined. You can check the 2021 NBS release to confirm

kingyakos:
Odin the one eye god of the Vikings

diplomat058:
What a joke

Ogun IGR alone is higher than that of all your five Hamlet states combined. You can check the 2021 NBS release to confirm

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

BossGerald:
Point of correction, I don't live in your overrated region, I live in a better atmosphere, what about you?? Any pictures?? Pls don't show me lagos

I want your home state pictures

Penguin2:
It’s understood if he wants to drive an increase in IGR but must he do it outrageously?

Imagine changing a fee from 6,000 to 30,000… calculate the percentage of increase.

Forget politics for a second… do you think it’s justified?

Kobonaire234:
This is not a defence of the government, but the fact is, we are not generating enough in IGR, and in oil money, even if we take away stealing.

Anytime I hear IGR figures for any state, I just laugh. We should be earning in the trillions of naira per state, not the billions, to be honest.

The problem is, Nigeria has a low tax to gdp ratio, and a low taxation uptake. Not just Nigeria...most African countries. The problem also is, most of us live under the poverty line...so if we charged taxes at the rate they did in say the USA, or UK, people would revolt. The looting that goes on in this government...and past ones, makes the matter worse....so it is not like I am saying that 'Nigeria is underdeveloped because we are not collecting enough in taxes...'....it is just one of the many reasons...most prominent...our oil dependency....that we have issues.

You can mock Lagos, and I also laugh...but the fact is, Lagos has a higher tax uptake than most Nigerian states...which means that as you are lauighing at Lagos, you are also laughing at the whole country....including the states run by the party or side you support.


If we want more money, either subsides on education, petrol, power and so forth go......or we become a producer nation (which is why APC has failed really....that is the correct answer to the question why we whould not vote APC again...we haven't become a producer nation under them...).....or we take loans.

That's one reason why I cannot vote for their tinubu, and your Atiku, and your Obi. None of these people are willing to make hard choices to get us out of this mess. Because telling people that they need to pay more tax, taxing the informal sector to guarantee the free education YOU want....removing petrol subsidy, removing power subsidy...all that means short term suffering....which most of us don't want.

Hell, I don't want it myself. I wish we could have free universites, free power, petrol at N10 (Which one of my heroes Gani was formulating years ago) and so forth. But the thing is, good stuff, even the free stuff , has to be paid for.

Because nothing is free in Freetown.

By the way, education is free in Germany.NHS is free at the point of contact in the UK... Meanwhile, their tax rate is scary stuff...if we implemented it in Nigeria, there would be a revolution in minutes. Free stuff costs money.

You can call me a APC supporter, or a PDP supporter, or a Zomideint..or whatever...but nothing is free. We either wake up to that, or pretend that we can keep things free, while we take loans tire to maintain the pretense of 'free stuff'

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.

BossGerald:
Evil Agent of division...the imo and abia people you mentioned are better than your SW states.

There's no southwest city that is as developed as Owerri...don't mention lagos becos I know you'll suddenly turn lagosian

BossGerald:
Point of correction, I don't live in your overrated region, I live in a better atmosphere, what about you?? Any pictures?? Pls don't show me lagos

I want your home state pictures

Simeonjoe1:
Oga na Nigeria you dey. Everybody head dey kolo for here. If they explain to you 20x person may no go pay no go pay. Abi no be Nigeria again. Sometimes I don't envy the government using thugs and werey to charge some of this businesses, go with calm demeanor they no go answer, show them craze wey pass their own dey go start to cry, Las Las they will still pay.

There's something seriously lacking in a black man sense. Everybody behaves like a boss in their own, everybody sabi governance, evrbody is right, everybody deserves to move first, everybody doesn't want criticism.
That's why give a 9ja man small power or money him go use am oppress e fellow man, e go show say him superior pass e other man. Give am small opportunity him go corrupt steal enough money, for what? To oppress him fellow mate.

Nobody normal for here, hence only abnormal government go fit reason 9ja.

i am not in Naigeria, i wasn't even born in Naigeria. That is probarbly why i sound difference from you. And you are absolutely correct about Naigeria, nobody normal

Kobonaire234:
It is like you think I am calling for the taxation of the poor alone...I am calling for the taxation of everyone...poor and rich, and naturally the richer you are, the higher your tax rate.





1.The UK charges high taxes...and in return provides anemites which make job creation easier. Also, UK power and water companies charge high rates by Nigerian standards, to provide the anemites that everyone benefits from, and also...provides jobs directly and indirectly.

UK is not like Naija government that creates civil service jobs on paper, that contribute zero production and revenue.

2.Yes, UK can afford benefits for jobless people...BECAUSE THEY HAVE ENOUGH REVENUE FROM TAXING EVERYONE...informal and formal.



Yes, I am on PAYE, and have a TIN. Have you paid yours?

Elemosho478:
This is Osun state, Osun generated 21 billion even as one of the state with the least IGR in South west. Anambra home of chest beater and ghost billionaires could only generate 30 billion.

South East is the smallest region in Nigeria, Oyo is bigger than South East, it should be the easiest region to develop.

BossGerald:
I asked you to show me a developed capital and you're showing me this Internet pics of a substandard town called ososgbo? With its big igr as you said,it's not even up to Abakiliki...you can browse abakiliki pictures and compare. Make una try dey travel outside that una overrated region.

Meanwhile that last pics is not osogbo, show me real pictures not Internet, of where you stay in osogbo let's compare.

Here's mine Obosi, Anambra state...not even the sate capital or onitsha or nnewi.

BossGerald:
I asked you to show me a developed capital and you're showing me this Internet pics of a substandard town called ososgbo? With its big igr as you said,it's not even up to Abakiliki...you can browse abakiliki pictures and compare. Make una try dey travel outside that una overrated region.

Meanwhile that last pics is not osogbo, show me real pictures not Internet, of where you stay in osogbo let's compare.

Here's mine Obosi, Anambra state...not even the sate capital or onitsha or nnewi.

Elemosho478:
You are delusional, those are pictures of Osogbo you can use Google to confirm.

Go to Osogbo and see Anambra indigenes pushing wheel barrows.

gypsey:
I didn't see yours or Obosi.. where are the live pictures of Obosi?

Odin13:
What a waste of time by fools

Imps attempts at propaganda

Weak

Next

warlordd:
There is nothing wrong in that afterall they were paying agbero more than that before Soludo came in.

Odin13:
Tax is important

Funny I Dey Onitsha like this

gypsey:
I didn't see yours or Obosi.. where are the live pictures of Obosi?

BossGerald:
Where are you?? I don show you pictures, you Don run

gypsey:
I didn't run i saw your pictures it didn't look as i expected, what part of Obosi is that even?