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NIGERIA'S FIVE LARGEST SECTORS — AND THEN 2003, 2013 & 2023

Contribution to Economy 2003
1 Agriculture — 25.34%
2 Manufacturing — 9.71%
3 Trade — 9.36%
4 Prof, Sci & Tech services — 3.48%
5 Info & Communication — 3.28%

Contribution to Economy 2013
1 Agriculture — 23.33%
2 Trade — 16.62%
3 Info & Communication — 10.73%
4 Manufacturing — 9.92%
5 Prof, Sci & Tech services — 7.76%

Contribution to Economy 2023
1 Agriculture — 22.93%
2 Info & Communication — 17.34%
3 Trade — 15.83%
4 Manufacturing — 8.81%
5 Prof, Sci & Tech services — 5.59%

#Statisense
(NBS)

helinues:
Meaning agriculture have been declining hence the ridiculous amount of prices of good items are.

Why should things we don't import like yams, garri be selling at ridiculous prices?

Lindlady:
Ebola Tinubu has destroyed Nigeria beyond redemption.

BlowYourMind:
Tinubu singlehandedly defeated bitter grieving obi,

BluntCrazeMan:
But wait..

I am still wondering why Nigerians are not paying INCOME TAX..

And then, Nigerians are not paying Commodity Taxes, and Luxury Taxes.

AND NOBODY IS SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT..
Many Nigerians are facing hard times, you wanna increase it

These taxes are not merely supposed to be sources of income alone,, but methods by which the Government track how much money in the system, how they get into the system,, and how they are being spent...

Then I just remembered that in Nigeria as a country, we don't even have an accurate database which contains the number of the Nigerian Citizens and Residents who are working as employees (whether for the government or for private establishments),, or the number of those who are owners of businesses (whether they work alone in the business by themselves, or whether they employed any employees)..

THERE IS NO ACCURATE DATA ANYWHERE,, NOT TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER THE DATA IS COMPLETE OR NOT..

BluntCrazeMan:
But wait..

I am still wondering why Nigerians are not paying INCOME TAX..

And then, Nigerians are not paying Commodity Taxes, and Luxury Taxes.

AND NOBODY IS SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT..
Many Nigerians are facing hard times, you wanna increase it

These taxes are not merely supposed to be sources of income alone,, but methods by which the Government track how much money in the system, how they get into the system,, and how they are being spent...

Then I just remembered that in Nigeria as a country, we don't even have an accurate database which contains the number of the Nigerian Citizens and Residents who are working as employees (whether for the government or for private establishments),, or the number of those who are owners of businesses (whether they work alone in the business by themselves, or whether they employed any employees)..

THERE IS NO ACCURATE DATA ANYWHERE,, NOT TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER THE DATA IS COMPLETE OR NOT..

LandMann:
You have been conditioned like in Pavlov's dog and bell experiment to believe that more taxes is what the government needs to solve Nigeria's problem.

But what you don't know is that tax is an easy way for government to be extremely lazy and productive.

Also, tax discourages productivity.

There are countries doing well without taxing their citizens

Stop giving the corrupt and useless government in Nigeria ammunition to kill the people

BluntCrazeMan:
But wait..

I am still wondering why Nigerians are not paying INCOME TAX..

And then, Nigerians are not paying Commodity Taxes, and Luxury Taxes.

AND NOBODY IS SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT..

These taxes are not merely supposed to be sources of income alone,, but methods by which the Government track how much money in the system, how they get into the system,, and how they are being spent...

Then I just remembered that in Nigeria as a country, we don't even have an accurate database which contains the number of the Nigerian Citizens and Residents who are working as employees (whether for the government or for private establishments),, or the number of those who are owners of businesses (whether they work alone in the business by themselves, or whether they employed any employees)..

THERE IS NO ACCURATE DATA ANYWHERE,, NOT TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER THE DATA IS COMPLETE OR NOT..

BluntCrazeMan:
But wait..

I am still wondering why Nigerians are not paying INCOME TAX..

And then, Nigerians are not paying Commodity Taxes, and Luxury Taxes.

AND NOBODY IS SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT..

These taxes are not merely supposed to be sources of income alone,, but methods by which the Government track how much money in the system, how they get into the system,, and how they are being spent...

Then I just remembered that in Nigeria as a country, we don't even have an accurate database which contains the number of the Nigerian Citizens and Residents who are working as employees (whether for the government or for private establishments),, or the number of those who are owners of businesses (whether they work alone in the business by themselves, or whether they employed any employees)..

THERE IS NO ACCURATE DATA ANYWHERE,, NOT TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER THE DATA IS COMPLETE OR NOT..

helinues:
Meaning agriculture have been declining hence the high rise of prices of food items .

Why should things we don't import like yams, garri be selling at ridiculous prices?

BluntCrazeMan:
ELECTORAL REFORMS:
((SUGGESTIONS))

INEC SHOULD BE MANDATED BY THE ELECTORAL-ACT TO SEND ALL THEIR ELECTION DATA TO THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS (NBS) AFTER EACH ELECTION.

The National Assembly should amend the Section-62-(subsection-2) of the Electoral-Act in such a way that the INEC should be mandated -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- publish on their website; ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results, together with all the lower-level collated results and the various results of the various Polling-units -- for each of the elections that are concluded by the INEC.
(The Election Accreditation Data which are published on the website should come with all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented).



..

The Electoral-Act should also be amended in such a way to mandate the INEC -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- Formally/Officially send ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results to the office of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for statistical documentation purposes.
The NBS (after receiving the set of data from the INEC) should be mandated by the Electoral-Act to run series of necessary independent consistency-tests on the whole set of data received (without any further compulsory input from the INEC during the period of the consistency-tests) before making the data public on their platforms; from where independent researchers can have access to the election data.
The maximum timeline for the election data to be made public by the NBS (including the publishing of the comprehensive reports which showed all the methodologies and the full results of all the consistency-tests which they conducted on the election results) should also be specified inside the Electoral-Act.. (Say; 3-weeks).
(The Election Accreditation Data that is sent to the NBS by the INEC should have all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented in it)

The Electoral-Act should also indicate what would happen to the sets of data that were sent to the NBS, should in case the data-set FAILS the mandatory consistency-tests that would be conducted by the NBS.

BluntCrazeMan:
I strongly believe that the day when the INEC-Results (and all the Possible Election DATA that goes with the Results) start to get fully published for public viewing and scrutiny (and also open to independent forensic audit) within 14-days of declaring the results,, that would be the only time our elections are beginning to get transparent enough...

BlowYourMind:
Tinubu singlehandedly defeated bitter grieving obi,

Globad:
Which countries are doing well without taxing their citizens and how are they funding their budgets?

Don't forget that income tax is not the only form of tax in a country. Also, don't compare Nigeria to a country like Qatar.

BluntCrazeMan:
But wait..

I am still wondering why ALL WORKING, AND ALL EARNING NIGERIANS are not paying adequate and corresponding INCOME TAX on their supposed incomes and earnings.

And then, Nigerians are not paying Commodity Taxes, and Luxury Taxes.

AND NOBODY IS SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT..

These taxes are not merely supposed to be sources of income alone,, but methods by which the Government track how much money in the system, how they get into the system,, and how they are being spent...

Then I just remembered that in Nigeria as a country, we don't even have an accurate database which contains the number of the Nigerian Citizens and Residents who are working as employees (whether for the government or for private establishments),, or the number of those who are owners of businesses (whether they work alone in the business by themselves, or whether they employed any employees)..

THERE IS NO ACCURATE DATA ANYWHERE,, NOT TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER THE DATA IS COMPLETE OR NOT..

faithfull18:
Are you new here Nigerians pay income tax infact for government workers, both state and Federal, it's deducted from source. Same thing is done for most private organisations too. Commodity tax is also charged in supermarkets, malls etc., there's consumption tax too, whether it's remitted is talk for another day. Taxes with no corresponding economic improvement rather looted or spent on a select few.

BluntCrazeMan:
Give me the percentages of Nigerian employees and that of the business-owners who pay their income taxes in Nigeria..

Two figures alone is all I need here.
One for the Nigerian Employees
And the other for the Nigerian Business Owners.

I'm talking about accurate robust data here, and not whether people are paying or not..

How many supermarket employees are paying their taxes?

How many shop attendants are paying their taxes??

Do These Businessmen who own threads and chains of shops pay their taxes?

helinues:
Meaning agriculture have been declining hence the high rise of prices of food items .

Why should things we don't import like yams, garri be selling at ridiculous prices?

helinues:
Meaning agriculture have been declining hence the high rise of prices of food items .

Why should things we don't import like yams, garri be selling at ridiculous prices?

Lindlady:
And after that you started shouting ebin pawa o

BluntCrazeMan:
Give me the percentages of Nigerian employees and that of the business-owners who pay their income taxes in Nigeria..

Two figures alone is all I need here.
One for the Nigerian Employees
And the other for the Nigerian Business Owners.

I'm talking about accurate robust data here, and not whether people are paying or not..

How many supermarket employees are paying their taxes?

How many shop attendants are paying their taxes??

Do These Businessmen who own threads and chains of shops pay their taxes?

The concerns you raised (which I emboldened) are caused by one thing.....
“There is no robust/all-encompassing tax database in Nigeria”

Why could someone buy a Bentley Vehicle in Nigeria, and the tax duly deducted,, yet the TIN of the person who bought the vehicle and paid the Tax was not captured??