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naptu2:
It's not just petrol and roads, there are many laws that state that people and or institutions will pay taxes to fund specific agencies or sectors. These include basic education (UBEC), tertiary education (TETFUND), science and technology (NASENI), etc.

The aim of the new tax laws is to harmonise all these taxes (they are not new taxes).

Last year legislators were up in arms when they believed that the new tax law would scrap some of these taxes.

In other words, the executive is in charge of implementation and they've said that they won't implement. If you want the law to be scrapped, then approach your legislator.

Tunex252:
One thing about this government is that they really know how to deceive the public

I pour spit on them

pretydiva:
Bunch of jokers. Say one thing today, come out the next day to debunk it

casualobserver:
I fear for Nigeria because we are either a nation of very dull people or a nation of extremely dishonest people who know the truth who deliberately continue to spread lies .

Twice I have posted what the law says about the tax on this thread and yet people are still saying it is a new tax and it will start in January.

God help us. No nation survives so much dullness or dishonesty in it’s population!

casualobserver:
there is no 5% tax. they are just playing to the gallery.

the 5% tax has been law since 2007 under the FERMA ACt bbut it wasnt implemented

the new tax law simply harmonized all exiting taxes into 1.

However in doing so it clearly states the the 5% tax will only come into effect at a time gazetted by the minister of finance. Since the minister of finace has not gazetted a commemcement date, there is no tax. they know this but they are only playing to the gallery so that when the new tax bill comes into force in January they can claim credit for resisting a %% tax bill that the government never said it was going to implement in january or any other date.

below is the relevant section of the new tax bill as related to 5% surcharge.


"Nigeria Tax Act, 20252025 No. 7A 476(2) Surcharge shall be computed based on the retail price of all chargeable
fossil fuel products.
161. (1) The Minister may by an order issued in the Official Gazette
indicate the effective date of commencement of the administration of the
surcharge on fossil fuel products under this Chapter"

below is the 5% tax in the FERMA act 2007

Substitute for section 14 of the Principal Act a new section “14” –
14 (1) The Fund of the Agency shall consist of –
(a) The take-off grant from the Federal Government;
(b) Annual subvention from the Federal Government as provided in the Appropriation
Act;
(c) Loans and grants-in-aid from Federal, bilateral and multilateral agencies;
(d) Rents, fees and other internally generated revenues from services provided by the
Agency;
(e) All monies collected from toll gates;
(f) Such monies accruing from road concessions;
(g) All other sum accruing to the Agency from time to time;
(h) 5% user charge pump price of petrol, diesel and of which 40% will accrue to FERMA
and 60% to be utilized by the established State Roads Maintenance Agencies; and
(i) International vehicles transit charge as may be determined by the Hon. Minister of
Transportation.

motymop:
the minister has explain that the 5% tax has been in place since 2007, that means we have been paying the tax without we knowing about it

watch as they spin this.

casualobserver:
Please show where the government ever said they were implementing it.

It is illiterates, naysayers and deliberate saboteurs that deliberately spread misinformation about the tax law.

Anyone who read the bill knew there was no 5% petrol tax coming in January. So you wonder if our people are so dull that they read but don’t understand what they reading or they have an ulterior motive. That a trade Union would even make such a statement questions their motive. Did they not read the tax bill?

nedekid:
Are you government, why have you taken it upon yourself to explain the rubbish 5% to the extent of advising people to approach legislator? Or is this a case of work no pay?

naptu2:
Meanwhile, for those that are saying that the petrol tax was imposed by Obasanjo.

He imposed it, but the NLC went on strike and several people sued the government. The court ordered that the tax should be suspended and the government suspended it.

That's why the FERMA Act 2007 says that implementation of the tax will begin at the date to be determined by the finance minister

FG Withdraws Fuel Tax, NLC Leaders Await Implementation, Meet Today
https://allafrica.com/stories/200401210282.html

Your Fuel Tax is Illegal Lawyers Tell Obasanjo

By Adewale Busari
30 December 2003

Lagos — A cross section of legal practitioners have thrown their weight behind Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu's decision to drag the Federal Government to court over the proposed fuel tax contained in next year's budget, currently before the National Assembly.

Governor Tinubu yesterday threatened to drag the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to court if the fuel tax is implemented.

igatit:
Deception are you awake? Yes sir 🚨 Let's go and deceive the gullible ones again.

Labour unions give Obasanjo ultimatum on fuel tax

8 January 2004

ABUJA
Nigerian trade unions have threatened to call a fresh general strike on 21 January unless President Olusegun Obasanjo repeals a controversial new fuel tax within two weeks.

Announcing the ultimatum on Wednesday, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said the 1.5 naira (US $0.01) per litre of fuel tax that came into effect on 1 January was illegal and unacceptable.

The powerful NLC groups 29 blue collar unions covering both the public and private sectors. It include key unions in Nigeria's lifeblood oil industry. The NLC forced the government to back-track on a steep rise in petrol prices last year after it called an eight-day general strike at the end of June.

Petrol prices have risen up to 12 percent since 1 January because the introduction of the new tax was accompanied by a further liberalisation of fuel prices. Petrol in Lagos now costs between 43 and 45 naira (43 and 45 US cents) per gallon.

“Since we cannot bear this hardship indefinitely, we shall resume the general strike and protest within two weeks,” Adams Oshiomhole, president of the NLC told reporters. “The fuel tax is illegal because it lacks the necessary legislative backing for its enforcement. It's illegal for the government to insist that people pay taxes that are illegal,” he added.

The tax was included in a budget appropriation bill sent to parliament in December. However, the government has ordered that the tax become effective from 1 January even though the legislature has yet to pass the bill into law.

Several prominent legislators, including the Senate President Adolphous Wabara and Speaker of the House of Representatives Bello Masari have expressed opposition to the the tax. But Obasanjo insists that it is needed to raise funds for the maintenance and repair of the country’s decaying road network.

Fuel prices rose last year by more than 50 percent after the government first abolished subsidies on imported fuel and later allowed prices to be determined by market forces under its economic deregulation programme. Most Nigerians see cheap fuel as one of the few benefits they have derived as successive regimes mismanaged the country’s oil riches. However Obasanjo is keen to abolish expensive state subsidies on fuel which have simply encouraged smuggling to neighbouring countries where prices are much higher. He also wants to raise domestic fuel prices to international market levels in order to facilitate the privatisation of Nigeria's decaying refineries, which are functioning at a fraction of their original capacity and are unable to meet domestic demand.

naptu2:
Meanwhile, I was against the demolition of the toll plazas. Government spent a lot of money to build them and they could be useful in future, why spend money to demolish them again?

And the current government has talked about reintroducing the tolls, which would mean spending money to build new toll plazas, when we had already spent money to build them in the past and then spent money to demolish them again.

naptu2:
It's not just petrol and roads, there are many laws that state that people and or institutions will pay taxes to fund specific agencies or sectors. These include basic education (UBEC), tertiary education (TETFUND), science and technology (NASENI), etc.

The aim of the new tax laws is to harmonise all these taxes (they are not new taxes).

Last year legislators were up in arms when they believed that the new tax law would scrap some of these taxes.

In other words, the executive is in charge of implementation and they've said that they won't implement. If you want the law to be scrapped, then approach your legislator.

naptu2:
Everybody knows that you just became active here in the past few months because of the 2027 elections and everybody knows what your job here is. I am not interested in any of you people's partisan agendas. I deal with facts.

The fact is that the executive is responsible for implementation and they've said that they are not going to implement.

The legislature is responsible for making and repealing laws, so write your legislator if you want the law repealed. That's why you have a representative!

Since you have not been able to respond to this point, then I take it that you have no point and there's no reason to continue engaging you.

Goodbye (I won't read your post anymore).

Okoroawusa:
Bro, you are talking to a bot. Have you not noticed its activities since it was activated?