₦airaland Forum

Dennisochampa:
North Central, North East and South East dey cheat the rest of Nigerians... Cos I don't understand why they contribute so small and get so much

Na una fight for Nigeria.... So una go tax unaseff to die ... And use the money to pay us and we use that money to build our cities


One NIGERIA

90% of businesses powering the South West is owned and managed by the South East. They are the ones generating the income.

Believeintruth:
Go back to your own state.

😂😂😂muumu……where is my state? Is Lagos in your 5plot potopoto region? Proudly Lagos, you can locate the nearest transformer if he pain you 😂😂😂

splendyuniQ:
90% of businesses powering the South West is owned and managed by the South East. They are the ones generating the income.

indeed, with your 2*2 shop? Yet they can’t power sad yeast to become the second or third but last…..nya Miri and upside logic 😂😂😂

givedemwotowoto:
You’ve quoted me twice but still haven’t been able to say anything meaningful or articulate yourself. Ignorance with hate, envy, and loud mouth

Go use your yeye smart - ness in your eyes on your kind. Lol. It won't work on me. I will not tell you how. Go and research it and stop embarrassing yourself. I too know. And dem go say am with boldness. I won't still tell you. Go research it yourself.

The west would been like the North just that all south south multinational oil company headquarters are in the West all the seaports are in the west instead of the south south, . Shinning on south south glory who feeds the entire country

Melezenawii:
SW and SS are the major regions carrying the rest of the country. SE make so much noise but contribute very little positively to the country.

https://x.com/maydebuk23/status/2017570960186982750

Alusiizizi:
Allow me to add to your perfect explanation. If you look a little closer at the contributors from the SW, SS states you will find that when normalized by relative population that a disproportionate number of the contributors are from the SE.

well said!

givedemwotowoto:
In the U.S. in general, Republican-controlled states tend to tax their residents lower income tax while Democrat-controlled states tend to tax their residents more.

SE contributes heavily through low unemployment from entrepreneurship, not by heavy consumption and big government spending.

The economy of SE is dominated by traders, manufacturers, transporters, and small business owners who are producing, distributing and creating value

VAT is a consumption tax, not a productivity tax. Regions that contribute more through retail chains and government funded spending, will generate more VAT. Regions that focus on production and reinvestment will generate less VAT.

Low VAT is not evidence of low economic activity, it’s just evidence that the business activity is structured differently

Update:
I made a post about this because I think this point needs clarification: https://www.nairaland.com/8609924/low-vat-doesnt-mean-low

Show me evidence of productivity and reinvestment in the south east

Melezenawii:
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You can create 250 , 000,000 topics with this same thread. We Igbos and the entire Biafran doesn't care. If Una vez divide the country.

JohnAOne:
A very pathetic and totally ABNORMAL arrangement

Present day Nigeria is a PARASITIC UNION WITH STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.

Ah! ONE DAY YORUBA PEOPLE WILL WAKE UP!

Sleep mood remains active. Our leaders and those following them like mumu are to blame.

gracealonev:
I am from the Southwest but I think there has been too much noise about this topic on VAT contributions. It has been featuring on Nairaland front page every other week for some time now.
All of these guys bandying VAT figures around have never sat down to imagine if those non-vatable items like food and agricultural products from the north are factored in.

My submission, in essence, is that VAT generated over a period does not absolutely confirm the productivity level of any zone.

Thank you.

What a wise submission. I'm also from same region. Those posting the news repeatedly know what they're doing. They're the same sycophantic beings we've been talking about . Our region houses the corporates HQs of many establishments. That's not all, those contributors aren't all from our region. You can imagine the ibos who are leading in pharmaceuticals,hospitality,banking, transportation, aviation, etc all move their corporate hqs to the south east, what would you think would have happened? Unfortunately,they dont know how much they're harming their region economically by citing industries outside their domain. We won't do that as a people. They could have come 2nd after the south west but the entire SW revenue would be reduced to half. With this move, their region would have received much more allocation than what's seen on the newspost

Eriokanmi:
What a wise submission. I'm also from same region. Those posting the news repeatedly know what they're doing. They're the same sycophantic beings we've been talking about . Our region houses the corporates HQs of many establishments. That's not all, those contributors aren't all from our region. You can imagine the ibos who are leading in pharmaceuticals,hospitality,banking, transportation, aviation, etc all move their corporate hqs to the south east, what would you think would have happened? Unfortunately,they dont know how much they're harming their region economically by citing industries outside their domain. We won't do that as a people. They could have come 2nd after the south west but the entire SW revenue would be reduced to half. With this move, their region would have received much more allocation than what's seen on the newspost

If 3 million Igbos are in the SW, there will be over one million Yorubas in the SE. SE can't come second after the SW. It is to do with population. There is no zone that is not significantly higher than the SE in population. Even in the 19th century it would have been so

lawani:
If 3 million Igbos are in the SW, there will be over one million Yorubas in the SE. SE can't come second after the SW. It is to do with population. There is no zone that is not significantly higher than the SE in population

Ibos in the south west are pretty much, especially in lagos.they're over 5m in population. Yorubas are scanty in the east. We're only much in the north and ibos are there too. I'm very close to them. As a matter of fact my wife just returned from Imo today though shes also yoruba. Since I've been going there, I rarely see a yoruba man or woman and that's not to say they're no Yorubas resident there,maybe civil servants. The day I saw my sister selling agbo in ihiala, I felt at home cos I didn't let her go. I told her I sighted my tribeswoman today and she started laughing.

Come to lagos. Hardly would you see a street where ibos aren't resident or own a shop. These people contribute to the VAT from our region. Its not same scenario in the east. Should they go to their region to live and develop there, they'd generate much more revenues. Imagine moving the hqs of the likes of Diamond bank, UBA, Zenith, Fidelity etc to the east and their staff follow them. Im not talking of the likes of Emzor, Elbe,Orange Drugs, nestoil, oilserv etc. Move the entire alaba and ladipo autoparts, building materials market at odunade/coker to Anambra and we go there to buy from them. They'd come second with ease. South south only has oil and non oil revenues far surpass what Nigeria get from oil.

While we will maintain the lead, they'd come second and closely. Even the apapa wharf are under their control in terms of importation.

Tenses:
You dey spoonfeed person. The person wey you dey spoonfeed say he no chop again say he won go his way but you wey dey spoonfeed am say na lie he no go go anywhere.

There's something they are not telling us.

They can go but can't take any land that belongs to nigeria. Its that simple let them go sand fill the Atlantic ocean

Eriokanmi:
Ibos in the south west are pretty much, especially in lagos.they're over 5m in population. Yorubas are scanty in the east. We're only much in the north and ibos are there too. I'm very close to them. As a matter of fact my wife just returned from Imo today though shes also yoruba. Since I've been going there, I rarely see a yoruba man or woman and that's not to say they're no Yorubas resident there,maybe civil servants. The day I saw my sister selling agbo in ihiala, I felt at home cos I didn't let her go. I told her I sighted my tribeswoman today and she started laughing.

Come to lagos. Hardly would you see a street where ibos aren't resident or own a shop. These people contribute to the VAT from our region. Its not same scenario in the east. Should they go to their region to live and develop there, they'd generate much more revenues. Imagine moving the hqs of the likes of Diamond bank, UBA, Zenith, Fidelity etc to the east and their staff follow them. Im not talking of the likes of Emzor, Elbe,Orange Drugs, nestoil, oilserv etc. Move the entire alaba and ladipo autoparts, building materials market at odunade/coker to Anambra and we go there to buy from them. They'd come second with ease. South south only has oil and non oil revenues far surpass what Nigeria get from oil.

While we will maintain the lead, they'd come second and closely. Even the apapa wharf are under their control in terms of importation.

The SE can't come second even if they all return home. They are not the only ones scattered across Nigeria. They will still come last. In Ilesa, there are people from all over the country. The rural areas have more Benue people in farms than Igbos not to talk of other people
If there are 5 million Igbos in Lagos there will be 5 million Hausas and other Nigerians will be more than 7 million leaving the Yoruba with maybe 5 or 6 million. I don't think that is the demographic structure of Lagos. Do you now think the SE have more indigenes than any zone? If not how can they come second? Are other people not working and doing business?

gracealonev:
I am from the Southwest but I think there has been too much noise about this topic on VAT contributions. It has been featuring on Nairaland front page every other week for some time now.
All of these guys bandying VAT figures around have never sat down to imagine if those non-vatable items like food and agricultural products from the north are factored in.

My submission, in essence, is that VAT generated over a period does not absolutely confirm the productivity level of any zone.

Thank you.

VAT is consumption tax, i.e where the consumption takes place. if food from the north is factored in, SW VAT contribution will even be bigger.

No be Lagos all south easterners dey....you no even dey reason before typing anything ...

Melezenawii:
SW and SS are the major regions carrying the rest of the country. SE make so much noise but contribute very little positively to the country.

https://x.com/maydebuk23/status/2017570960186982750

JohnAOne:
A very pathetic and totally ABNORMAL arrangement

Present day Nigeria is a PARASITIC UNION WITH STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.

Ah! ONE DAY YORUBA PEOPLE WILL WAKE UP!

Yes. Wake up to realize that they have been a parasites sucking SS oil and SE Gas. They better wake up now and dey there dey

givedemwotowoto:
In the U.S. in general, Republican-controlled states tend to tax their residents lower income tax while Democrat-controlled states tend to tax their residents more.

SE contributes heavily through low unemployment from entrepreneurship, not by heavy consumption and big government spending.

The economy of SE is dominated by traders, manufacturers, transporters, and small business owners who are producing, distributing and creating value

VAT is a consumption tax, not a productivity tax. Regions that contribute more through retail chains and government funded spending, will generate more VAT. Regions that focus on production and reinvestment will generate less VAT.

Low VAT is not evidence of low economic activity, it’s just evidence that the business activity is structured differently

Update:
I made a post about this because I think this point needs clarification: https://www.nairaland.com/8609924/low-vat-doesnt-mean-low

Absolute nonsense, if there is indeed major trade you'd expect to see it in taxes and levies.

It's either there is extreme tax evasion or there is low economic activity

unclejb2:
Igbos are the most populated ethnic group after host communities in every part of the country.

They are contributing to Lagos vat, Kano vat, Rivers vat

Yet not contributing to vat in there indigenous area. Such nonsensical stuff you guys come up with

GorillaApp:
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Why are you then scared of letting the so called leech go? Is it not funny? You call them leeches and the leeches want to go and you don't wanna let them go!

Who in the hell gave you the impression that we don't want you to go? What do you contribute? If not because of this useless leaders who ever told you any region wants you stay? Have you ever seen any normal person saying the East should not go? Are your leaders not part of the people not wanting you to go? There's nothing that will give me joy than seeing you leeches leave this country. You have NOTHING to offer

YourGFsnatcher:
Who in the hell gave you the impression that we don't want you to go? What do you contribute? If not because of this useless leaders who ever told you any region wants you stay? Have you ever seen any normal person saying the East should not go? Are your leaders not part of the people not wanting you to go? There's nothing that will give me joy than seeing you leeches leave this country. You have NOTHING to offer

Alright. Kindly begin to campaign for it vigorously

seunmsg:
lol. It is called Customs vat and it is not recorded for any state. Of course all vat goes to firs. VAT collected by customs are not recorded against any state. They are accounted as Customs vat. Try learn something new my dear.

mugu ...VAT isn't a state tax

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Majesty7:
Who cares about IPOB? If you guys are really serious, then all of you should relocate back to your region. Stay there and cut all ties with other regions.

Stop crying unnecessarily. Nobody cares. Show action first. Relocate back and cut all ties. Even by then, the UN and all other countries will start seeing you differently. Look at Taiwan... Show seriousness and stop spamming everywhere with all these Biafra jargons

Oga see you first relocate to your own state.

Majesty7:
Who cares about IPOB? If you guys are really serious, then all of you should relocate back to your region. Stay there and cut all ties with other regions.

Stop crying unnecessarily. Nobody cares. Show action first. Relocate back and cut all ties. Even by then, the UN and all other countries will start seeing you differently. Look at Taiwan... Show seriousness and stop spamming everywhere with all these Biafra jargons

Let me clarify something first before you start all these false accusations of people that can land you in trouble for Libel and defamation of character. I stand to be quoted any where Biafra ended in 1970. For Heavens sake you cannot be attacking people and banding them as IPOB. IPOB existed and it is a symptom of lack of equity in this country. Please let this be the last time you link me with any Biafra statement.

Abeg value added tax is based on consumption and service delivery and NOT PRODUCTIVITY. Do you know how much is VAT on each state allocation only? That's why South-South and South - West look like that.

South-East is not more on spending but re-circulating with small and medium scale economy.

unclejb2:
you have more Igbos living outside the south east region than living within the region

This alone proves the incredible POVERTY in that region. Nobody leave a prosperous region to go live in someone else's homeland and this is why you don't see Yorubas leaving their homeland because it is a very prosperous and rich homeland.

Yoruba people please WAKE UP!!!