₦airaland Forum

Princedapace:
We have been paying taxes, my father and mother all paid, we pay taxes such as VAT in billions and trillions, we pay all types of bank levies and taxes, importation taxes, income taxes. The only sector not paying much of income tax remains the self employed sector. And income tax is not the only tax, Nigerians have been paying tax since colonial master came.
And Nigeria has mad resources that we dont need to pay such heavy taxes. What the new tax he brought does is widen those who will pay especially those who work online who were not captured in thhe previous tax law. As the previous tax law stated that u pay income tax on income earned/sourced within Nigeria. This put out thhose who earned money from abroad for paying income tax but they paid all other taxes such as VAT, property taxes, etc. We have been paying tax. And Nigeria has made mad money, but our problem is corruption and wastage. And extremely dependant economy. U are taxing heavily a country that imports everything.
Let me give u one idea, imagine we have a secured country where u and I can farm. Imagine in each family, one person is a farmer in large scale. We will have enough to crash food prices and export a lot to nearby countries which will boost the power of naira.
U can only grow when u export more finished products, not by importing everything.
Now, u need electricity for industrialization. He is not doing anything in electricity and security. These two are important for self sufficient economy buut he is focued on widen tax. Who dey Bleep told him that? Europeans grew their industries before heavy taxation and that is because they have not much resources.
One person in Nigeria will loot 30Biliion. This is the real issue, nigeria has money, it is wasted on political packages, and corruption. They will spend 350million on library renovation and u will check, u wont see any renovation. They will use 750 million to build govt website. These are the issues.

SixSeven:
I just need to break this down here because what you don't understand you will keep being misled.

A tax is money the government collects from people, businesses, or things you buy, to pay for public services like roads, schools, hospitals, and electricity.

Many Nigerians think only people with salaries pay tax because income tax (PAYE) is very visible, it comes straight off your paycheck. But in reality, everyone pays indirect taxes whenever they buy goods, fuel, food, use electricity, phone, or travel. The “hypocrisy” comes from the fact that government talks about income tax more because it’s easy to track, while indirect taxes are hidden in prices, so it feels like the poor or informal workers aren’t paying anything when they actually are.

What annoys me is the japa people that go abroad and yap about taxes. They want Nigeria to have the same western style. If you play with taxes abroad, you'll be shown the way out in the next election and you should also understand the white man and why he does things in a way. When you understand their history, you'll know why we are not the same.

Some countries really do not charge personal income tax at all meaning residents don’t file annual income tax returns like in the UK/US and don’t pay tax on their salaries. Examples include United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Monaco, Brunei and Vanuatu, among others. These countries still get money for government services through oil, trade, fees, or other taxes, not by taxing individual salaries. Do the maths and tell me one thing in common Nigeria has that some of these countries have. These countries fund government spending through other sources such as oil and gas revenues, corporate taxes, import duties, fees, tourism income or VAT/sales taxes, instead of taxing people’s income directly.

You need to get off this obsession with the west and trying to be like who you are not. This is the miseducation of the average African. Don't forget that in Aba and Ogun State, Women fought the imposition of taxes by the British. Many Nigerians don't even study their history. You should go and read why they didn't want the colonial government collecting taxes from them.


Historically, Western heavy taxation grew partly from scarcity and because they needed money to fund armies, wars, infrastructure, and administrative systems. Land and resources were limited, populations were growing, and scarcity of money made taxes necessary. Scarcity also came from their harsh climates, poor harvests, and limited technology, so the state had to extract more from people to survive and provide basic service, sunlike in some African systems, where wealth was shared communally rather than extracted as formal taxes. When you look at it today, the concept of Black Tax is because in Africa, we share the resources with the rest of us Ubuntu style. Learn why things are the way they are. Today, I see people teaching financial wealth and I laugh when they want us to copy westerners and their form of selfish indiduvual finance.


The day Nigerians wake up to know their rights and why the government cannot just squander their money, they will wake up.

sparko1:
That is the lie most men are feed, men are always lonely, even married men, most die before their wives, before their children becomes provider, those who are unlucky to be alive becomes bachelor all over again. Have you ever heard of men being invited to his son or daughters house after a new birth.

If you are not comfortable/happy being alone, you will never be happy.

occfx:
Poor people Sabi Nak ooo... Chei. They no dey think anything na sex sex and na waiting an average shuga mummy dey find

sparko1:
There's one little point you are missing, marriage doesn't favor a man, there is nothing to gain, everything that is provided can be gained without marriage.

Besides, marriage is overrated, we have enough population already.

occfx:
If you are poor, marriage is not for you.. Just go look for one shuga mummy that can do ivf and marry if you must marry.

The issue is sometimes you will think you have money until you marry. E go come clear say you be poor man.

Most guys think say they get money but if they enter marriage, everywhere go first blur.

My advice be say, any money wey you dey make now as a single guy wey you think say dey enough for you, double that inflow by 5 times. Before marrying anybody.

esnbrutality:
He failed totally...and has been discovered to be a commanding representation of failures claiming to be leaders.

SmartPolician:
Which military error? Since APC took over and destroyed everything, they are now using the military to lie up and down. APC is a party of pathological liars!

aswani:
Don't forget Peter Obí is yet to maturely congratulate President Tinubu on the 2023 election win.

I doubt he will ever congratulate the Nigerian Army on this.

I am sure Donald Trump is taking notes on those not celebrating this. Atiku and Peter Obi, be mindful of being labelled terrorist sympathisers and do the needful.

Melezenawii:
Peter Obi said it is the ^{duty of opposition} to spread bad news and the president needs to encourage them.

This guys is irredeemably unintelligent.

Nwaokunkpara:
Nobody posted about this international boy child day meaning that nobody cares about boys/ men even the gender don't care

fyneboi79:
Title of the movie please..

bukatyne:
More thoughts on Hypergamy:

Marriage to a man in your tax bracket or higher eliminates some of the stress in marriage. Like it is said, a man will always drag a woman to his level; that drag might be upwards or downwards.

I am sure we have all heard stories where the wife wants to subsidise rent, school fees, food and other things (where the husband believes his manhood is tied to sole provision) and it causes a fight? The wife can afford a 3 bedroom flat; Odiegwu wants them to stay in one room so that people will not say it is his wife that is housing him. Visiting a man in one room as a lady living in 3 bed for a weekend might be a kink; moving into a one bedroom after marriage is horror. And any other lifestyle downgrade.

A colleague from service year (male) used to chuckle when I spoke about love. He said ' a rich man hates you but he gets a maid for you, buys a car for you, doesn't require you to do some chores' aka makes your life easy.

Some guys here on NL say washing machine is for lazy women. Imagine a woman above a certain tax bracket marrying such. Whilst her company expects her to use her time well for more meaningful tasks (there is a reason organizations provide certain welfare packages at certain levels), she is washing clothes by hand because her horseband thinks washing machines and blenders are lazy in 2026.

Interestingly, a woman wants to pull a man up so she is handing over contracts to him, giving him the car to drive, changing his wardrobe and packaging him as the 'man'.

Imagine a richer man wants to get a car or a cook or a bigger house or a washing man and the lower income wife says 'it is too small' or stops the purchase.

Until the dynamics of marriage changes, a woman who doesn't want to spend her life shalaying, massaging egos, or reducing herself to accommodate a man should better marry her tax bracket and higher.

God forbid she adds the stress of marrying below her tax bracket to the stress of marrying a man.

And if they are both poor, he has the capacity for growth so that when they/she blows, he is not insisting on grinding stone pepper.

While he was struggling financially he found out is wife had $280,000 in her bank account pic.twitter.com/CVdqSdxrwm

— Abdulkabir (@olawale__01) May 14, 2026

SixSeven:
Repost👇

I made a post about their women too. You are just a tool to give them babies and provide for them. The same reason some women want to have babies, a getaway card from life responsibilities. Dem no de tell person when life show you shege



As if what I wrote here wasn't enough, I just read this study that reveals what women would do if they won a $1m vs what a man will do but look at this one where women marry and divorce men, what do they say? It's hard for them to be alone when there's no provider

“I’ve divorced four times and each time I’ve had a party.”

In Mauritania it’s thought half of all women get divorced at least once with some remarrying multiple times. Many choose to celebrate their divorces but for the poorest there are serious consequences. pic.twitter.com/TC7il1ottH

— Unreported World (@UnreportedWorld) May 10, 2024

A man will provide without conditions most of the time but that very same thing is very hard for women to do unconditionally, another reason why they become bitter.

Men, know this and know peace, WOMEN ARE NOT BUILT TO BE PROVIDERS. The moment you know that, you would have figured out a lot of things you need to know as a man.

SixSeven:
. You are correct. I am now more confused. If he was really 15, they will know with the way he talks and carries himself. Now that I know anything can happen, is it that the 2010 dob was for a different purpose? And he didn't know today he will need nomination form for a different purpose.

It just reminds me of the former IGP Egbetokun who took pictures with people and then remembered that he can't just take pictures with anyone when they started using the pictures as endorsement. If the President's advisors were thinking they could use the guy for content, they should have
done a background check first.

uvie66:
.... this is a poor man talking trying to justify poverty

alanto:
Many of you think security is only about the military. Many people tried to open your eyes but you don't like to know. TF is Otubanjo

SixSeven:
Women don't forget. A help is a debt owed...

Feed a woman for life, no worries. Let a woman feed you for lunch, Kilimanjaro will hear about it. Men, take note. Women don't help like that. You are the provider, not her. Beware of Greek gifts.

While he was struggling financially he found out is wife had $280,000 in her bank account pic.twitter.com/CVdqSdxrwm

— Abdulkabir (@olawale__01) May 14, 2026

Add Writes from Abuja.

SeaTrade:
I'd ignore your first sentence as you don't know who you're talking to.

There's no country without indirect taxes,they also pay council tax and bank levies in the West,even VAT on telecoms.
Whether you pay indirect taxes doesn't exempt you from tax liabilities at the federal /national level.
Stayed in a hotel in Milan a month ago and got charged some small fee for local area council levy bla bla bla...
It's global.

esnbrutality:
This guy did something CODED in this picture. He showed his Childhood picture.

Where is TINUBUs Childhood picture..?

CharlotteFlair:
Few days ago, I watched clips of his interview on Instagram, something was off I said to myself. He may be dimunitive, but dimunitive adults don't sound like kids. His voice was like a kid's.

What possible purpose could warrant him to reduce his age by half?

Lithiumite:
He dey use style justify his tinubu patronage,remember he was in apc before.....thats his exit strategy,pls ask him which SE candidate is there in ADC running fir presidency.

bigpicture001:
The FG should make a law that every hospital should have a surgeon associated to it ND the surgeon should be within reach out to his /her associated hospitals in 20mins....

Yes one surgeon can be associated with 5 hospitals within his radius, but this policy will save alot o lives as stabbings and accident victims will b operated upon immediately...

It should also b that hospital should have a working well equipped ambulance associated with it and which is within the beck ND call of honor her registered hospitals within 15mins...

Yes, one ambulance can be associated with up to 10 hospitals with her radius but let it b available and ready for service...

We need to learn to save lives...and also disemninate information fast...

Ok, do u know the salt,sugar, fatty, content of public foods should be monitored.

If I don't monitor my body, I would have died from kidney issue back in 2016.. I was consuming deadly food as food.just one random health aware guy safe me

9jaBloke:
Honestly. Anyone who genuinely says that has always had money.

Yes, money is not everything and you don't have to be extremely wealthy to live a good life but if you or your loved ones have ever had a life-changing need and could not afford it, you will know that money is very important.

The poor chase money hoping for peace.

The rich realize peace was never hiding there.

One thing about being around rich people…
you either stay real or you start lying.

There’s no in-between. pic.twitter.com/3IbQJS7jR2

— Cattermole (@OtunbaSebotimo) May 2, 2026

If money is the only thing you have, you are truly poor.

Contentment is king of all situations

xtivin:
The rich also cry….
RIP to her and condolences my brother…