ORIENTATION101:
Tax system in Nigeria is one of the lowest in the world.

OK I buy my generator, sink my borehole, pay tipper and organise boys to do my road manageable, pay my hospital bills and so on. Give me one reason why I still have to pay tax.

Sheriman:

You NIGERIANS go still pay it.. You no fit do Shit Abi na today Lazy and Cowards People.

Exactly, this is where it all ends, on social media, we rant and that’s all....they already know we are cowards..thats why they do all this nonsense...we won’t just pay, we will come out at hail them for next election.. that’s the one that annoys me the most

Hmm, this is wickedness o, why taxing what the common people use everyday, they should tax owners of mansions, private jets and expensive automobiles.

MedicH:


OK I buy my generator, sink my borehole, pay tipper and organise boys to do my road manageable, pay my hospital bills and so on. Give me one reason why I still have to pay tax.

You won’t beleive that in a state in this Nigeria where water isn’t provided, the state government charges borehole tax:35k

Its quite unfortunate that we foresaw this suffering but we still went ahead to vote for it.. Even God cant deliver us because we signed for it..it there in the terms and conditions...


Pls be mindful of ur words even in the height of frustration never u disrepute God. Although i disapprove of any policy that may be insensitive 2 the plight of average citizens but also frown at anybody daring God in any guise.

jayjaysony:
Its quite unfortunate that we foresaw this suffering but we still went ahead to vote for it.. Even God cant deliver us because we signed for it..it there in the terms and conditions...


Pls be mindful of ur words even in the height of frustration never u disrepute God. Although i disapprove of any policy that may be insensitive 2 the plight of average citizens but also frown at anybody daring God in any guise.

What do u mean dare God? Is it God that put buhari for us?

They probably run out of ideas

AmuDimpka:
the truth is that the nigerian taxing system is very low and we cant over deoend on oil, we have to deepen our tax system. Lagos and Abuja are two economic cities we must start seeing these places as cash cows and they must contribute to the country.

so why worry about 7% tax maybe

People like you are the real enemies of Nigeria.

Impose tax on data, voice, sms, and cables. This is serious after struggling to save up 100 naira and buy MTN card another person will say pay tax for it. This Nigeria is an apocalypse already. Very soon tax will be impose on our life too. I think I have to go back to my moms womb and be reborn to China. FTC

This people are prepared to slay us with tax

ORIENTATION101:
every thing u listed up there re not free in anywhere in sane countries.

You pay for light,road,water, train,car e.t.c good governance is not free in Europe or america.

Nigerians don't pay tax yet re quick to compare Nigeria with Europe and America where they tax everything

Just imagine your reasoning??
You compare light, roads , health etc of developed contries to yours..
Way back in secondary school , I was a science student, like they call it then, but still have a bit knowledge of government

Can I ask you, what are the roles of the Government to its citizens??

How has the government fared in the above aspects you listed , to warrant paying high taxes??
Is it roads, where are you from, do you have good roads, do you have stable ,how many hours do you get light in a day, the health sector , you still pay your bills and you are saying shit?
These are basic things the government should provide for its citizens, do you have those??

I hope I’m not arguing with a kid who still lives in his parents house, eating mummy and daddy thankyou, and knows nothing about what the real world is all about..
Anyway , this is my last reply to you

MedicH:


OK I buy my generator, sink my borehole, pay tipper and organise boys to do my road manageable, pay my hospital bills and so on. Give me one reason why I still have to pay tax.

You Dey mind the mumu, and he still has the guts and impetus to quote people..
Truth is Nairaland is filled with kids lately

Toscarele:
The senate should slash the outrageous aMount being paid to them, before even talking about such taxes

People who feel they are not well remunerated for their "outstanding" sacrifices to the nation...

If I were a terrorist, I would labour, scheme, and work night and day to burn down that house of Parliament with every politician inside... I would do it without an iota of remorse... And I am a peace loving person.

TheExecutioner:
Senate bill imposes tax on GSM, cable TV subscribers

October 3, 2019
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja


A bill for an Act to introduce tax on communication and cable television services scaled first reading at the Senate on Wednesday.

The introduction of the tax, it was learnt, was to replace the 2.2 per cent increase in the Value Added Tax being planned by the Federal Government.

The Bill for an Act to establish the Communication Service Tax was sponsored by a former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume.


Briefing journalists shortly after the first reading of the bill was taken by the Senate, Ndume said the imposition of tax on communication service was a better way of distributing wealth in such a way that would not affect the ordinary people.

He said increasing VAT would have very devastating effects on the economy as it would raise prices of goods and services.

The bill provides the charging of nine per cent on calls and data usage.


The bill reads in part, “There shall be imposed, charged payable and collected a monthly Communication Service Tax to be levied on charges payable by a user of an electronic communication service other than private electronic communication services.

“The tax shall be levied on electronic communication services supplied by service providers.

“For the purpose of this clause, the supply of any form of recharges shall be considered as a charge for usage of electronic communication service.

“The tax shall be levied on such electronic communication services like voice calls, SMS, MMS, data usage – both from telecommunication services providers and internet service – as well as pay per view TV stations.


“The tax shall be paid together with the electronic communication service charge payable to the service provider by the consumer of the service.”

The bill stipulates that the Federal Inland Revenue Service would pay the tax collected together with any interest and penalty into the Federation Account.

According to the bill, all service providers shall file a tax return to account for the tax.

https://punchng.com/senate-bill-imposes-tax-on-gsm-cable-tv-subscribers/

I don't just understand these block heads in senate, the service providers pay tax already, now you want to tax individual consumers.
Economist in the house no b double taxation be that.

We should tax senate

next level

Where is and simplyleo. Shay this government don dey weak u

Nickshrapnel:
DSTV maybe, Data hell NO! Why can’t they tax unoccupied houses as suggested by the UN?

DSTV maybe? You think the Senate will tax DSTV and ignore GOTV, Consat, MyTV, Startimes, CTL, Metro Digital, Montage Cable Network, MultiTV, Daarsat, Peace tv, Trendtv, etc ??

You're saying "maybe" to DSTV because it's own by a South African company? Please don't be unfortunate! Don't let your hatred for DSTV ruin your senses. There are over 30 pay TVs in Nigeria and all users would be taxed equally! It wouldn't matter whether it is owned by Ramaphosa of South Africa or Musa of Kano.

Look at how you senselessly rejected taxes on Data. You think you're safe by your decision to use Gotv or CTL? Don't be unfortunate

popweezy:
IF THEM BORN BUHARI WELL MAKE E SUPPORT DIS NONSENSE.. NA RHAT HIM GO KNOW SAY JESUS NO BE AJEGUNLE MAN

Hmmmm naso una dey get mouth for social media...usual Nigeria youth online ranting

Am so speechless for this Country.

felixedet:






People like you are the real enemies of Nigeria.

why.....when the igbo warned did u not call them same n ames

I saw it coming. Especially with the rate our youths watch Bbnaija and vote for their favorite housemates making Bbnaija rake billions of naira and some viewers promising the contestants millions of naira whether they win or not. The senators woke up from their slumber.

ORIENTATION101:
every thing u listed up there re not free in anywhere in sane countries.

You pay for light,road,water, train,car e.t.c good governance is not free in Europe or america.

Nigerians don't pay tax yet re quick to compare Nigeria with Europe and America where they tax everything

I totally support a fair tax regime but my friend you shoot yourself completely dead, not just in the foot because the average Nigerian spends almost his entire income and I mean individuals and corporate institutions on providing himself with 'public' services.

It is the citizen that subsidizes bad governance by paying for infrastructure, security, etc while government at all levels spend more money from oil, loans and yes taxes on itself.

The capital expenditure component of goverment spending, the part that assists the average citizen save money has always been a fraction of recurrent expenditure. So if goverment should take more from people by way of taxes it has to take less from the purse for itself and invest more where it expects to reap.

I have said it time and again. We need to elect a shrewd business man to run this country for a season to change the narrative around Nigeria's economy thus I supported the Peter Obi candidacy.

Friend, if you have to run a successful poultry tell me what comes first, the investment or the sale and ROI ?

When you start to ROI how will you divide the proceeds. Will you take 70 percent for your 'recurrent' expenses and reinvest only 30 percent for new birds. Can you sustain and grow like this. Then to make matters worse you employ more staff relevant or not and give everyone a pay rise (new minimum wage) thus increasing the recurrent then you turn to your hapless chickens and ask them to sacrifice themselves more to pay the new wages.

What will happen to your business is what will happen to Nigeria soon. Then imagine what happens to you and the poultry business if like Nigeria it is heavily exposed to creditors. Like it or not. This country is facing a financial abyss. Its citizens are too financially weak and traumatised to bail the government out. That is just the fact.

It's only better for a government to do a first term, the second one is an avenue to steal our money..


Only God will judge this government

LongThickPenis:
When there is already VAT on DSTv payments raised from 5-7%. Britain should just come and recolonize us.

Japan will be the best fit for recolonization.

these satanic/redundant rulers deserves a special place in hell!... the shithole is fast heading south!

SouthSouth1914:
It is finished already! Rubber stamp senators are at it again. Zombies enjoy the next level..

Did you read the content?

some useless youth will still vote APC come next.. the youths are the problems of this country... shame on Nigerian youths

Buhari genuinely has good intentions for Nigeria but I am not sure his policies are properly structured to address the peculiarities of the Nigerian politico-economic system. As a matter of fact, they have turned the previously unstable system to an even worse state, an uncontainable pressure pot such that the effect of fixing one problem colludes with other systems, generating new problems in the process.

Well, they have done well in proposing a shift in financial pressure from the very poor by re-directing from VAT to Luxury tax which is what a sane government with the poor masses at heart would have done in the first place.

All these new taxations because Labourers are demanding for less than $100 dollars as minimum monthly wage!!!

I don't see sense in all these desperate move by the gvt of the day trying to tax everything in this country we are still debating the effect of vat now they are talking about taxing data and calls why? data that we don't even get to use properly because of poor server etc despite that, at the date of expiration those network providers forcefully take back our data from us now u want to tax it including calls knowing fully well that most people who you want to tax are unemployed besides adults are not only the ones using data or airtime children and teens are included well nor be na fault since we love suffering and smiling in these country and refuse to support those who are ready to talk the talk and walk the walk we go still pay and whether u b Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, delta, Benin tiv we all suffer we die here

ArmaniUhuru:
Tax, Tax, Tax and more Taxes... That's the only thing they think about. Soon we will start to pay tax for the blood in our bodies. Useless idiots.

My people have vex o.

Really, all we have to do is fight for them to be placed on minimum wage but NO we won't because of party stupidity.

What they're implying is as long as they are well fed, it doesn't bother them if someone else is hungry.