₦airaland Forum

bunmioguns:
Typical government logic: Focus on PAYE reduction for the few formal workers while the 80% in the informal sector are being squeezed by 'double taxation' and 'agbero' levies. This January 2026 'testimony' sounds like a sponsored script. Let them show us the new tax tables and compare it with the 300% increase in the cost of living over the last year. The math isn't mathing!

You don't even know that the main aim of the reform is to eliminate double taxation in the first place

With this 3,100 increase; you can now buy more things...

olarent:
My salary also increase by 3100

Look at this lying fool talking as if they have done anything significant other than to rob Peter to pay Paul.
You are deducting almost extra 60k from my salary as tax while you are reducing people's tax obligation by just 3k here and 5k there and you think are helping out.
This government is not serious at all .

Emu4life:
Na lie. Nothing increase for my pay.
AdeYEYE

E don hit you Abi?

Sai APC
Sai Tinubu..

gbagyiza:
I think it's a benefit for low earners, but as for me, it didn't reduce; it went up. My PAYE for January was 184000.

Definitely, your take home is up to 7 figures.

renderme:
This is true.

Nigerians realized on twitter that those against the tax law were indeed spreading propaganda. January salary entered people’s accounts and salaries increased due to lower taxes.

Exactly what this tax guy said was going to happen. The new tax laws reduced taxes for like 90% of Nigerian workers.

yeah..but
1. by how much?
2. When every single transfer you make costs you an extra 50 naira plus VAT on any bank charges
3. When your rent is due, your landlord who should be responsible for remitting their WHT from the rent received passes that burden to you the tenant.

Are you really better off?

Let the NLC and TUC confirm that.

renderme:
But you paid more before. .eg. If you paid 7500 and it has now reduced to 4000 (depending on the % on your salary) So you go home with more salary.
That’s the point. Your tax reduced. Unlike the liars that said it would go from 7500 to like 10,000 and then your salary reduces.. Only the very rich who are like 5% of the population got higher taxes.

Theres also ‘rent relief’ available in the tax law. If your company’s HR didn’t add this to your tax refund, they should.

Tell them. Most Nigerians are just hypocrites, and they act like zombies. i dont know why.

Checkwell:
Tax reduced from salary, but increased from bank account deduction. Tax na your mate? Una go hear am.

Please tell us the bank deduction where it was increased. Keep spreading lies everywhere. Ndiala.

bunmioguns:
Typical government logic: Focus on PAYE reduction for the few formal workers while the 80% in the informal sector are being squeezed by 'double taxation' and 'agbero' levies. This January 2026 'testimony' sounds like a sponsored script. Let them show us the new tax tables and compare it with the 300% increase in the cost of living over the last year. The math isn't mathing!

So in your head you expect government to pay you in the name of taxes. I thought you all were condemning Tinubu as the new tax master and how he wants to kill you all with taxes, now the story has changed to the fact that you are telling them that they should be the ones to pay you tax now abi. Oliver asks for more.

thirty:
Honestly less than 1% increment.

Oboy be grateful for onces in your life please. Of the 1% was removed from your salary, you would have cried and wailed and told us of the million things that the 1% can be do for you. Now you are saying that it is nothing. continue. hypocrites everywhere,

swimmer:
Not true. My salary reduced. Oyedele is a dishonest man

. Talk truth. Your salary increased, why lieing.

MEGA4BILLION:
What is significant about 2k increment

If that same 2k was removed from your salry i guess you would have repeated this thing you just said. Because I know you would have been crying more than the crying man for us here. Typical human nature.

1vandragon:
The increment ranged from N400 to N5,000.And not everyone got an increase. Some persons actually had reduced net salaries ranging between N700 to N2,500.

While it is OK that there were increases, how impacful or significant where those increases? If cost of living goes up by 700%, what is a savings of 2%-5% going to really do?

And to those trying to make it seem as if some Nigerians were against the revised income tax, that was not the reality. The argument was that it was not far reaching enough in view of the economic damage done by bat.

Why increase the base tax to 15% if you really want to help the poor? Why not leave it at 7%?

Given the economic realities, the exemption threshold should have started at around N2m and at 7%.

These are the real issues.

Always meant to criticize, you people never ceased to amaze me. What are your problems in life?

DECEPTIVE SPEECHES EVERYWHERE, UP AND DOWN !

No be lie, my January net salary increased too

swimmer:
Not true. My salary reduced. Oyedele is a dishonest man

Have you received your January salary?

Normally salary Dey increase every January as you go higher in step. So I can’t really say if the small increment is because of step increase or tax reduction.

Vision101:
Have you received your January salary?

Yep

fxexperts:
Always meant to criticize, you people never ceased to amaze me. What are your problems in life?

Not everyone can be a headless chanter like you. That you wish to support blindly does not mean others should do same.

Just 2k

The break even point is 1.58m monthly gross. If you earn less, you pay less tax compared with old tax system. But if you earn more than 1.58m monthly gross, you pay higher tax compared to last year. The further your earning is from the break-even point, the higher or lower the tax impact

swimmer:
Yep

With same income, is your PAYE for January more than December or less?

1vandragon:
Not everyone can be a headless chanter like you. That you wish to support blindly does not mean others should do same.

You are the one supporting blindly and you know that but you keep lieing to yourself.

fxexperts:
You are the one supporting blindly and you know that but you keep lieing to yourself.

Stop hiding behind a finger. Claim your blind support with your full chest.

People like you that supported buhari blindly for 8 years only to turn around and blame him for what you blindly defended. Keep deceiving yourself.

1vandragon:
Stop hiding behind a finger. Claim your blind support with your full chest.

People like you that supported buhari blindly for 8 years only to turn around and blame him for what you blindly defended. Keep deceiving yourself.

I never supported Buhari. but that is not the point. People like you are never logical; you all follow the crowd blindly. If i criticize or support someone i do so logically, and i can withdraw my support if i see he no longer makes sense.

fxexperts:
I never supported Buhari. but that is not the point. People like you are never logical; you all follow the crowd blindly. If i criticize or support someone i do so logically, and i can withdraw my support if i see he no longer makes sense.

Lol. Why are you denying yourself? Are you not proud of your blind support for buhari which you have transferred to bat?

You wouldn't know what is logic if it hit you square in the face every day for the rest of your life.

To even show how blind you are, you cannot even reason that I made a suggestion that the rate should have been retained at 7% while the threshold should have been increased to about N2m.

But as is usual with blind rabble rousers such as yourself, you cannot even think to advocate for a better deal that reflects economic realities created by the incompetent president, yours is just to support blindly.

1vandragon:
Lol. Why are you denying yourself? Are you not proud of your blind support for buhari which you have transferred to bat?

You wouldn't know what is logic if it hit you square in the face every day for the rest of your life.

To even show how blind you are, you cannot even reason that I made a suggestion that the rate should have been retained at 7% while the threshold should have been increased to about N2m.

But as is usual with blind rabble rousers such as yourself, you cannot even think to advocate for a better deal that reflects economic realities created by the incompetent president, yours is just to support blindly.

This just shows that critical thinking is very far from you. i cannot contine to eduate you, because it is draining to say the least. You must be a joke joke. I have ran many calculations with this new tax law and trust me it is far less than the so called 7% you are claiming. and for your info the former tax rate was not fixed at 7%. 7% was for very low income earners, maybe you belong to that catergory. but for people who earn over 1M monthly were already paying over 15% already. this new tax law even reduced taxation for me and alot of people. In the old tax law some people were even paying up to 21%.

Vision101:
With same income, is your PAYE for January more than December or less?

More. Led to a 200k depreciation in my pay

fxexperts:
This just shows that critical thinking is very far from you. i cannot contine to eduate you, because it is draining to say the least. You must be a joke joke. I have ran many calculations with this new tax law and trust me it is far less than the so called 7% you are claiming. and for your info the former tax rate was not fixed at 7%. 7% was for very low income earners, maybe you belong to that catergory. but for people who earn over 1M monthly were already paying over 15% already. this new tax law even reduced taxation for me and alot of people. In the old tax law some people were even paying up to 21%.

Your attempt for you and your accomplice to delete my responses to you will not work. You must learn as your reasoning faculty has been traded for sawdust. You think you can throw jabs and hide...

And what if I earn minimum wage? Does it make me less human? Not everyone is a freeloader like you depending on corrupt persons or spoiled silly by corrupt family members.

Exemptions are not new, so you making it seem as if bat has performed some miracle is absurd to say the least. In fact, bat is effectively taxing the minimum wage earners because minimum wage in a year is 840k.

Effectively, while the threshold has increased, people actually pay more.

For instance, anything over minimum wage up to 300k was taxed at 7% pre-2026. Using the manipulative metrics of bat, it can be said that 60k would have been taxed at 7% translating to N4,200.

But now, that 40k over the 800k would be taxed at 15% translating to an effective tax of 6k.

So, do not be deceived by the increased threshold, the tax has actually increased, it is the noise of the first 800k being tax free that is blinding people like you.

1vandragon:
Your attempt for you and your accomplice to delete my responses to you will not work. You must learn as your reasoning faculty has been traded for sawdust. You think you can throw jabs and hide...

And what if I earn minimum wage? Does it make me less human? Not everyone is a freeloader like you depending on corrupt persons or spoiled silly by corrupt family members.

Exemptions are not new, so you making it seem as if bat has performed some miracle is absurd to say the least. In fact, bat is effectively taxing the minimum wage earners because minimum wage in a year is 840k.

Effectively, while the threshold has increased, people actually pay more.

For instance, anything over minimum wage up to 300k was taxed at 7% pre-2026. Using the manipulative metrics of bat, it can be said that 60k would have been taxed at 7% translating to N4,200.

But now, that 40k over the 800k would be taxed at 15% translating to an effective tax of 6k.

So, do not be deceived by the increased threshold, the tax has actually increased, it is the noise of the first 800k being tax free that is blinding people like you.

You still do not know ahet you are saying or how this tax is been calculated. First first 800K per annum whether minimum wage or what is tax free then the next amount after that is what is tax and the equivalent rates. You alkso forget there is tax relief up to N500K and their is insurance for tax rebate etc. The tax acutally reduced for so many income earners earning over N1M to 3M naira monthly as compared to last year and telling you this for a fact. And for the records if you have used your reasoing to buy fufu from the market, then please go get it back, because minimum wage will not save your sorry ass anymore.