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Pay to emblezz... Unserious bunch of idiots

sirray001:
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How can council do anything for you when your council tax is scanty or zero?

Do you pay 190 pounds a month to the city authority where you live?

You get what you pay for

Tax time is coming again! Na next level shege banza promax

And only 10% of Nigerian politicians and political office holders top civil servants and political elites benefiting from government largesse have also looted ,stolen immensely from the common wealth belonging to the people and that has impoverished many that cannot afford to feed or pay taxes

CoronaVirusPro:
So being self employed excludes you from paying taxes.

The emphasis isn't on the self employment but on the sector... i.e. informal sector.

How many bricklayers, painters, manual labourers would you ask to pay taxes in Nigeria when there are no regulations‽ Besides a lot of those in the informal sector still pay taxes by way of market levies and local government dues, those are also also types of taxes.

Soulsymbol99:
Only 10% of Nigerians are eating the national cake

10% justified by Pandora Bitter Obi, the communist labourer who was formerly in capitalist PDP until Wike kicked his ass out for ebilokan to get an easy path to Aso Rock.

[quote author=NLCreator post=126854133]Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.

There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.

Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.

The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.

While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.

“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.

“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.

“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”

Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.

https://www.thecable.ng/theyre-for-official-use-obi-defends-purchase-of-n160m-suv-for-lawmakers/amp

Journalist: how do you intend to engage members of your party who are members of the house, so that they can stand different.......?

PO: Let me start with the issue of labour party members in the house, have actually discussed this issue with them, surprisingly, I can tell you ,… pic.twitter.com/svybrcY4t3

— Beyond (@chigozie0102) November 7, 2023

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That shows only 30% of Nigerians are neither employed or self employed the rest 70% are idle what a country

F117nighthawk:
And only 10% of Nigerian politicians and political office holders too civil servants and political elites benefiting from government largesse have also looted ,stolen immensely from the common wealth belonging to the people and that has impoverished many that cannot afford to feed or pay taxes

That's how we roll in this geographical contraption. 200 million mumu of us.

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

nairalanda1:
How can council do anything for you when your council tax is scanty or zero?

Do you pay 190 pounds a month to the city authority where you live?

You get what you pay for

where is the money and the job to pay council tax? Why are you daft? You talk as if the Nigeria system is working

That is the main problem i have with Nigeria tax. Different entities and agents will storm your shop for tax. You don't know which of them is the real tax-men.
If you see what dis keke riders suffer in the hands of revenue collectors, you will be sad!

Baxilexi:
Nigeria has one of the highest rates of informal taxation I’ve witnessed anywhere in the world.
People with sticks and reflector vests are tax collectors and do not remit to the government.

Every Nigerian pays VAT Mr Senate president,
Every Nigerian using public transport (air, land and sea) indirectly pays tax
Every Nigerian who owns a bank account pays tax
Every employed Nigerian pays tax

Kindly educate yourself Mr Senate president.

Do you recognize that households in nigeria are very poor?

nairalanda1:
The problem is, that the income tax revenue is paid by less than 30% of the population. (PwC put it at 13% in 2016)...working population.

IMport duties are not up to 10 trillion, VAT was 7 trillion last year, and that cannot fund out budget at all.

nairalanda1:
The problem is, that the income tax revenue is paid by less than 30% of the population. (PwC put it at 13% in 2016)...working population.

IMport duties are not up to 10 trillion, VAT was 7 trillion last year, and that cannot fund out budget at all.

Budgets are not supposed to be funded by majority income tax

That’s a very badly run economy that will collapse under slight recession or job cuts

Pls what is the difference between tax, levy, PAYE, VAT and import duty?
Goodevening.

lawani:
We have maybe between 60 and 70 million Nigerians earning income. Which tax is thirty percent of that number paying?. Is it PAYE?. People that pay tax the way it is paid in the west can not be up to ten percent of working population and the majority are in Lagos

Residential buildings pay tax? You mean private family homes pay tax to government?

advanceDNA:
Informal sector pays tax ...don't let federal government deceive you....
Market woman pay taxes...if u have time ask them
Bike men pay daily...1300Naira per day
Small shop owners even located information front of their homes pay taxes...local governent collectors go to their shops to collect and give them receipt....

The amount of people on salary jobs are more than 30% and federal government collects PAYE taxes from salary....

There land use tax....which government charges on virtually all buildings weda u are making profit or not...residential or hotel

Everyone pays VAT indirectly when u purchase goods and services.....

No let federal government whine you....their mismanagement and embezzlement is the problem

Why pay tax when your government can borrow trillions in a second? The budget for the last 15 years isn't run from taxes but foreign loans.

Tax to buy yourselves more bulletproof suv's

Your writings look like comedy. Guy, are you staying in nigeria or Madagascar?

Nigeria government already know they can't collect half of citizens salary for tax! You render the economy in fragile state and you still want to collect the citizens oxygen so as to build amenities! How is that even possible!

nairalanda1:
In the UK you pay half your earnings in income tax , then you pay things like council tax, which can be as high as 190 pounds a month.

Nigeria income tax is not up to half your salary. The equivalent of council tax in most Nigerian cities is non existent

No wonder you don't see amenites.

You get what you pay for.

WHILE POLITICIANS LK Akpabio and others in oppresors class LOOT NIGERIA'S TREASURIES AND PUT THE LOOTS TO CAPITAL FLIGTS AND AS WELL FAIL TO PAY TAXES.

Two third of that 30% are civil servants.

Love800:
Residential buildings pay tax? You mean private family homes pay tax to government?

They pay in Lagos state

So Akpabio is now the MD of FIRS.??

Or he is one of the Directors at the Joint-Tax-Board.??

Love800:
Residential buildings pay tax? You mean private family homes pay tax to government?

Google land use tax......govt collects taxes on ur building per square km of the thee building covers on the land....

Residential pay
Companies pay
Schools pay
Hotels pay
Even Churches pay

kiki....ibos will say the 30% na only them....

awon olomo deveropers....

Soulsymbol99:
Only 10% of Nigerians are eating the national cake

10% is a very very generous number

People don't pay taxes willingly, it is the duty of the government to set up a system that makes it hard for citizens to evade tax.

Even here, I use all the tax loopholes to avoid paying of taxes by registering about two companies.

No one likes to pay tax but the government should set up a system that makes it very hard not to pay tax.

What is the percentage of those working?

Love800:
Your writings look like comedy. Guy, are you staying in nigeria or Madagascar?

Nigeria government already know they can't collect half of citizens salary for tax! You render the economy in fragile state and you still want to collect the citizens oxygen so as to build amenities! How is that even possible!

Okay, enjoy your beliefs.

Yankee101:
Budgets are not supposed to be funded by majority income tax

That’s a very badly run economy that will collapse under slight recession or job cuts

And in response.

USA :

In 2023, individual income taxes comprised 48 percent of all federal revenues. This is followed by payroll taxes, which provided 35 percent of all revenues

UK

39%

Nigeria

Less than 10%

Plus most of our income is from oil, whose prices we do not control. Therein lies the problem.

Love800:
Do you recognize that households in nigeria are very poor?

Okay, we are poor, therefore, we can only afford poor man lifestyle.

sirray001:
where is the money and the job to pay council tax? Why are you daft? You talk as if the Nigeria system is working

Okay, then stop complaining then. And stop voting PDP and APC.

Simple.

nairalanda1:
Okay, then stop complaining then. And stop voting PDP and APC.

Simple.

whether we vote APC or PDP, it doesn't change the fact that our politicians are selfish and greedy.

Really! That is absurd.

I appreciate your comment.

lawani:
They pay in Lagos state