₦airaland Forum

Judolisco:
So person go die now and eno go fit rest in peace again? At least it will encourage people to bury their dead quickly

unFortunately, the amount is too small not enough to force more people to act quickly. 40 naira in a month is 1,200 naira

helinues:
Oya, let's wait for the defenders from hell to come and defend this as it's not happening outside their shores

Go and look a for a legitimate job. Cheap shameless propagandist. Ekperima.

helinues:
Let your message be general not always one sided

Helinues, not everything is an opportunity for mockery.

Emmanuel900:
If Lagos government start this or any state in the West start the same thing you will see igbo calling it over tax that's responsible for the high IGR of south west.


Even with taxing dead bodies Enugu government can't surpass Osun state in IGR generation, this should show you the level of productivity going on in each region.

Osun is a very rich state every body knows that. It's even richer than New York city. Oya tell your tribal father who's now at the helm of affairs to help you divide the country so Enugu the poor state will now go and be like Somalia and stop pulling rich Ekiti and Osun brown roof villages backwards. That is something patriots like you should be at the forefront of right now

Oya go and collect it from the dead

Judolisco:
So person go die now and eno go fit rest in peace again? At least it will encourage people to bury their dead quickly

The amount is not even high enough to discourage people from keeping corpses for long

That's a fair tax and the intent is genuine.

I don't support the idea of leaving a corpse in the morgue for so long. If it's about funds, bury the corpse and do the burial ceremony later.

Lanretoye:
Make e Dey there one year,if money for cow never ready we no Dey bury.1year na 48k,e never reach money for basket of tomatoes.

One year na 14600, make una dey calm down

Richtaiwo:
You mean Enugu state generates money from the dead?

That mean the more the dead 💀 the more revenue


Let the government kuku nuke everyone in the state

Atuero:
40 naira daily cannot discourage the people from leaving the dead bodies in the mortuary

The motivation is rather taxation and not the purported attempt to discourage people leaving bodies in the mogue.
Why can't governments in Nigeria be real and straight for once!!

Atuero:
40 naira daily cannot discourage the people from leaving the dead bodies in the mortuary

ur wise ....we r the only two left in this planet.....the govt would have made it #2500 with hourly compounding interest by so doing they will even bury the person once they notice the person is coughing or having headache

A4alpha:
You bitter jobless man, go and learn internet marketing or graphic design etc. Instead of living on peanut handout paid to you by those who genuinely hate and turned your life upside-down, you operate a known controversial monica on here which if reverse was the case, someone perhaps from the same tribe you were paid to hate would have linked you up and uplift you from your devastating pitiful life of misery and obscurity.

STOP generalizing and complicating a common issue, for your information, this is a decision made by the state govt that the netzines on here is opposing but you who is bile driven quickly jumped in trying to misconstrue facts.
GET A LIFE

One bitter soul from Hell has been sighted. Stop assuming everybody typing online is jobless like your ashawo sisters from the potopoti republic.

But if assuming that people are suffering is what gives you peace of mind, keep it up bastaaaaaaard.

jrusky:
Haaa! Dead body to pay tax? I remember Enugu is pdp state pls what is the meaning of this and what type of evil people are in position of piwer these days? These are getting more strange full indeed day by day.

Peooplee shouting petrol, exchange rate, no food yet you are taxing their dead body then the governor kukuma eat the dead body then.

Nonsense!!!

Hahahahahahahaha
Na tinubu

Thank God.
If it's Lagos state now wailers won't allow us rest on NL.
Well wetin concern me na dog dey chop dog.
Wailers over to you.

“The tax is not meant to generate revenue but to discourage people from taking their dead ones to the mortuary all the time,”

Can anyone help me explain what this means? Honestly I don't understand what this means

South East

Enugu no be Lagos Yet they tax dead bodies!

Nawa

This Enugu internal revenue services and stupidity must be siamens twins. The other day, through the ministry of environment, they imposed solar energy tax on those using solar to generate their own electricity. That agency needs total overhaul like the way mechanics overhaul diesel engines. Enugu that is looking for money had money to host that lady that won beauty pagent and appointed her as an ambassador under the State's government payroll.

adenigga:
Sources: https://dailypost.ng/Why-Enugu-govt-imposed-tax-on-dead-bodies-Revenue-Board

“It is an indirect tax paid by mortuary owners, not deceased family and it is just N40, not N40,000. Since its introduction, nobody has been denied burying their dead ones.

The tax is for the decreased family, not the mortuary owners. The deceased family pays the mortuary owner who then remits it to the govt. It's just like VAT being collected from customers by business owners and then remitted to the govt.
In igboland we don't bury as soon as the person dies, there are families and people to be informed, there are issues to be discussed. Keeping the composed in the mortuary for 1-3 months is ideal for me, but Keeping it for 1 year and plus is a no no

bassdow:
I don't see it that way. Guess it's to discourage those who keep them for so long. Though I see the "within 24-hours" clause as too short.

As in if the Corpse were to be buried within 24-hours, why take them to mortuary in the first place. Maximum of 1-month before taxing would have made more sense to me.

Except in rare circumstances, there's absolutely no sense in keeping a corpse beyond 24hours.

It'll only prolongs the grief of it's loved ones and further depletes their finances, while the dead keeps being subjected to undignified processes in order to keep it fresh. In the end nobody benefits, except maybe the mortuary outfits and the drunkards who turn burials into booze fests.

If you see how cadavers are being treated in some mortuaries, I'm sure you'll create a will that they must bury you within hours after you're medically pronounced dead!

A4alpha:
You bitter jobless man, go and learn internet marketing or graphic design etc. Instead of living on peanut handout paid to you by those who genuinely hate and turned your life upside-down, you operate a known controversial monica on here which if reverse was the case, someone perhaps from the same tribe you were paid to hate would have linked you up and uplift you from your devastating pitiful life of misery and obscurity.

STOP generalizing and complicating a common issue, for your information, this is a decision made by the state govt that the netzines on here is opposing but you who is bile driven quickly jumped in trying to misconstrue facts.
GET A LIFE

It's only when issues arise in your enclave that you people will try to apply logic and common sense.
The moment the same thing happens in other regions, you throw out the same logic and simply start to wail and cry as usual.
The man is right for calling you out.
If this had been in Lagos the amount of rubbish comments that would have emanated from the usual wailing crew by now will be astonishing already.
Apply the same advice you gave him to yourself.
You people need it more.

A4alpha:
You bitter jobless man, go and learn internet marketing or graphic design etc. Instead of living on peanut handout paid to you by those who genuinely hate and turned your life upside-down, you operate a known controversial monica on here which if reverse was the case, someone perhaps from the same tribe you were paid to hate would have linked you up and uplift you from your devastating pitiful life of misery and obscurity.

STOP generalizing and complicating a common issue, for your information, this is a decision made by the state govt that the netzines on here is opposing but you who is bile driven quickly jumped in trying to misconstrue facts.
GET A LIFE

Pot calling kettle black. Hypocrite!

Atuero:
40 naira daily cannot discourage the people from leaving the dead bodies in the mortuary

Ridiculous amount. It's either you tax or you don't tax. What is N40 a day?. 100 days, which is over 3 months is still just N4,000.

However, i support the idea of burying dead people quickly in Igboland. We leave dead bodies the longest in the mortuary in Nigeria. That is not good. Igbos waste too much money on the dead. Need to stop that.

adenigga:
Sources: https://dailypost.ng/Why-Enugu-govt-imposed-tax-on-dead-bodies-Revenue-Board

T Pain widened the tax net, some governors are learning

This is very distasteful. What kind of accursed country are we living in? Even the dead has no rest. Haaa....The kind of leaders we have in this country are a special breed from hell.
You don't provide any form of amenities to the people yet you tax them even in death Sick sick sick people.
Its this same hopeless people that want to start taxing solar electricity users. Veery nonsense people.

N 40 is small they should increase it, leaving dead bodies in the Morg for so long for exorbitant burial ceremonies should be discouraged, I come in peace.

bassdow:
I don't see it that way. Guess it's to discourage those who keep them for so long. Though I see the "within 24-hours" clause as too short.

As in if the Corpse were to be buried within 24-hours, why take them to mortuary in the first place. Maximum of 1-month before taxing would have made more sense to me.

24 hours deadline...are they Muslims?

Kvarachi:
Sorry o, I want to know why you said "Gather liver"

I'm sure you ain't a Nigerian for you not to know the meaning of that expression.
We have enough words to form our own English language
"Gather liver" means summon courage

Stupid move...

Mortuary itself isn't cheap...if mortuary fees didn't scare the family,then 40naira wont

OlujobaSamuel:
I'm sure you ain't a Nigerian for you not to know the meaning of that expression.
We have enough words to form our own English language
"Gather liver" means summon courage

I didn't ask you to tell me the meaning cuz I know it, I only ask why you used it in this context. Gather liver bcuz of who?