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The Federal Government has raised concern over an alleged plot to undermine the implementation of Nigeria’s newly signed tax reforms.

Authorities say deliberate misinformation and coordinated false narratives are being pushed to weaken public trust and frustrate the policy before full rollout.

The alarm was raised in Abuja during the inauguration of a Joint Committee involving the National Orientation Agency and the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms.

The event focused on aligning public communication and safeguarding the reform agenda.

Speaking at the inauguration, the Special Adviser to the President on Economic Affairs, Tope Fasua, accused unnamed individuals of actively working against the success of the tax laws.

He said the actions go beyond criticism and are targeted attempts to confuse Nigerians and stall implementation.

Fasua explained that the new tax framework was carefully designed to protect low-income earners while strengthening national revenue.

According to him, the reforms aim to rebalance the tax system in a way that supports economic stability and social fairness.

“People are trying to ensure that, maybe, if they can manage to do it, the reforms do not succeed.

“However, we must quickly say that despite this resistance, this is a pro-poor policy—a policy on recalibrating the revenues of this country that ensures the poorest Nigerians are not touched, except positively,” he said.

He added that the newly inaugurated committee has been tasked with countering false claims and clarifying public concerns.

The committee is expected to engage citizens, correct misleading narratives, and explain the real intent of the reforms in clear terms.

The development comes amid growing political debate around the tax laws. Recently, a member of the House of Representatives, Abdulsamman Dasuki, alleged that there were discrepancies between the versions of the tax bills passed by the National Assembly and those later gazetted for public use.

Following the allegation, the National Assembly acknowledged the concern and assured Nigerians that the matter would be investigated and addressed appropriately. Lawmakers maintained that legislative integrity would be upheld.

The new tax laws are scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2026. The Federal Government has described the timeline as necessary to allow proper sensitisation, alignment of agencies, and smooth transition for businesses and citizens.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the tax bills into law in June 2025 as part of broader economic reforms aimed at boosting government revenue and reducing fiscal pressure.

Source: https://politicsnigeria.com/fg-raises-alarm-over-alleged-plot-to-frustrate-new-tax-reforms/

What is special about the so called tax reform? Will it increase tax to GDP ratio so the government will have money for universal healthcare?

lawani:
What is special about the so called tax reform? Will it increase tax to GDP ratio so the government will have money for universal healthcare?

Nothing at all. The money realized from the fictitious tax reform will be lotted and relooted

Nigerians raise alarm over FG's plan to frustrate Nigerians.

Onye ara.

What exactly are Nigerians benefiting from the government?
Roads - NO
Electricity - ZERO
Security - NIL
Water - FOR WHERE?

But when it comes to squandering public funds, tinubu is a master at that. He can renovate the VP's residence with 21b. Earmark billions for imaginary solar installation in Aso rock. Claim to have rekindled a dead refinery.

Everything about BAT and his cronies smell of lies, fraud, and unfettered wickedness.

lawani:
What is special about the so called tax reform? Will it increase tax to GDP ratio so the government will have money for universal healthcare?

Tinubu will have more money to squander.

They are watering the ground to blame someone for their incompetence and failures. 😁

Welcome New Tax ...More Sufferings to Nigeria .More to come... Renewed Hope of Sufferings was Promised it's being Fulfilled..

Tax reform you have not come clean to tell the masses the details of.
You just went into a covert agreement with France.

Tinubu knows he is not SINCERE with all his policies, especially this tax bills. No nation tax people to prosperity.

The fool want Nigerians to pay more taxes but he cannot show accountability

Honestly if I know how to frustrate that rubbish

I will wholeheartedly frustrate it

I tire for this fake government. Absolute rubbish

A whole FG,

Whimpering over the gossips of Northern power blocks.

Yet their laptop boys in Oshodi think that South Easterners in Lagos are their problem.

Proudlyngwa:
Honestly if I know how to frustrate that rubbish

I will wholeheartedly frustrate it

Why I am against federal Government tax rubbish.

I believe tax is an obligation for everyone irrespective of your social status, returns or relief, it is everybody's responsibility to contribute to nation building, security, primary education and future substanability.

I don't see why I should contribute from my sweat and some people wii be exempt because it is believed they are not making up to a certain amount, we all make use of the same roads, infrastructure and security architecture, so why should they not input their own quota to development and hold the administrators accountable.

Next , what sort of bullshit is progressive taxing, tax is meant to be a percentage of your income to the government, what rubbish is progressive taxing

Then nobody has talked about the never ending issue of multiple taxing.

Why should I go to a super market by an item, and pay vat on it, the workers who made that produtucts where taxed, the mart is meant to be taxed on its profit.
Why the helllll am I supposed to pay 7.5% on something I want to consume when other people who worked for it have been taxed and those who sold it have been taxed on their profit.

We have levies, we have rates, we have tax, vat, w.hold tax, bribe, thank you and even thank you for coming.

Tax should be by locality and speciality.

Federal government can have a unified platform for collection but we are supposed to know what percentage of a person's tax goes to the unit, ward, local government, state government and then federal government.

I cannot be in porthacourt with its quarter to madness attitude and be sponsoring mass wedding in zamfara, homosexuality in ..A ..U...A and 5 million dollar school fees in sokotozerland.


This madness needs to be readdressed

There should be no tax reforms until there's a clear and result-oriented fight against corruption.

There can't be fantastic corruption in the country without a serious fight against it and you are talking about tax reforms.

Na God go punish una light u no give security na me still dey guide myself work I no see na crypto and forex I dey use guide but I go pay tax

There’s one question and a very important one at that about this tax law

Will yahoo money also be taxed?

Always talking nonsense about protecting the poor

Inasmuch as the new tax laws and reforms may not be bad, we need more of economic prosperity, increase our earnings and our purchasing power, give naira more value, support local industries, make good stable policies that will attract investors and create jobs, provide good sustainable basic amenities; then come up with all these tax laws and reforms. You don't tax our poverty, you tax our riches!

FG should come out clean

The tax bill is an attempt to frustrated an already frustrated Nigerians

If the FG has pure intention, they need to STOP THE PERSONAL INCOME TAX WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT!

Let Manufacturing companies, importers, refineries, recycling companies, & other big companies be taxed. Everybody needs these manufacturing companies afterall nobody escape buying sachet or bottle water. If only these people tax, it will be single digit. The present format will end up eating up people's meagre income with tax. Tell me why I should pay tax on personal income and when I shop in the supermarket, I still pay another tax. When I make calls buying recharge cards from already taxed income, government still taxed me

The whole tax structure is a complete mess that needs to be cleaned up asap. Nigerians dont earn enough to be taxed!

If importers pay tax, it will be spread on the selling price

Manufacturers already add the tax to the selling price of their products

please all well meaning Nigerians should come together to resist this Tinubu evil tax plan..

we're yet to feel the impact of the subsidy removal...

The man borrows like no tomorrow with nothing to show for it..

Tinubu suspend the devilish tax law.


Nigerians are suffering and struggling to survive, tax enforcement cannot help Nigeria it will rather worsen and complicate Nigeria's economy.


The new tax law will only slow the growth and recovery of businesses and companies and further cause more unemployment and hardship, it will also discourage more investors and also sabotage cashless policy.

You removed subsidy and nothing to show for it afte so much noise and promises of heaven on earth


You removed subsidy on tertiary education tuition fee.

You removed subsidy on electricity tariff and nothing to show for it.


You have borrowed close to a trillion dollars with nothing to show for it.


You and your predecessors couldn't account for the trillions Nigeria earn from crude oil sales for decades now. Is it tax revenue that FIRS staffs usually steal through various means and then government officials loot the remaining that you will account for after collection?


We have plenty precious solid minerals in the North, think of how to harness it and you will generate trillions from it to foot your 2027 Presidential reelection rigging plans




Allow Nigerians breath na.


Nigeria is not yet ripe for this crippling tax law.


Go and ask why former Presidents abolished the old British tax law that made tax taskforce chase Nigerians around in the markets, villages, on the road, etc.


It will not yield positive result in Nigeria now, focus on recovery and improving security first.


This can come in 6 years from now when Nigeria has recovered from the woods where Tinubu and APC pushed Nigerians into

"Welcome, New Taxes! The 'Renewed Hope' promise of suffering is being delivered, with more hardship on the horizon for Nigerians.

Tax reforms in a nation where the monthly minimum wage is $50 USD. Even the people earning the minimum wage are subjected to 15% tax, despite rising cost of utilities like electricity, so how is that "pro-poor"?

Someone earning 30k in 2019 is better off than someone earning 70k in 2025... The last election and dollar sharing really killed the Naira and APC agents are to blame 100% from Buhari to Emefiele to Tinubu... They killed the Naira.

All they have been talking about since coming into power has been tax tax tax & tax

When your policy shakes the middle class that is when a successful revolution happens quickly
This policy may not end well for FG

Proudlyngwa:
Why I am against federal Government tax rubbish.

I believe tax is an obligation

Tax is an obligation indeed, and no sane mind should go against tax, but the level of clarity in the new tax law is poor, many points were shrouded in unclear personal interpretations. Also, accountability in previously paid taxes is making Nigerians think they're wasting money by paying tax. What do we have to show for all the income generated in this country? Whether via taxes, borrowing, sales of crude or other earnings??

Reno is that you? They have paid online mercenary to propagate this tax reform. The people said no and will resist it. But you are still trying to forced it on them.

franchasng:
Tinubu suspend the devilish tax law.


Nigerians are suffering, struggling.


The new tax law will only slow the growth and recovery of businesses and companies and further cause more unemployment and hardship, it will also discourage more investors and also sabotage cashless policy.

It will lead to renewed hyperinflation

Lmao! See them calling 'misinformation' when their own House of Reps members are shouting that the version of the bill passed by NASS is different from the one they 'magically' gazetted in Abuja.
​How can there be public trust when you people are playing 'now you see it, now you don't' with the law? You signed the bills in June, but by December, the gazette is showing something else. Is it the 'unnamed individuals' that swapped the documents in the Ministry of Information too?
​You want to 'rebalance' the tax system, but the only thing being rebalanced is the money moving from our empty pockets into your new fleet of SUVs. If Nigerians are confused, it’s because this government is a masterclass in chaos. Free us abeg!