NewStats: 3,264,445 , 8,183,736 topics. Date: Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 06:42 AM 34254o

franchasng:
Nigeria ought to be a tax free nation to start with.



All the trillions being made from crude oil revenue, other mineral resources and VAT, what have the government used it for? No security of lives and property in Nigeria, no steady electricity, no good roads, no water supply, nothing is working. So Mr Akpabio tell us why Nigerians should pay tax in Nigeria; to fund the luxury life of criminals in power?

Nigeria cannot be a tax free nation.

1.OIl revenue comes from less than 2 million bpd. For it to make sense for Nigeria it has to be at least 20 million bpd. At least.

2. Mining is unregulated in this country. Has been since indepndence. Even then, it won't yield much. Because like oil and agirc...WE DO NOT CONTROL THE PRICE.
(Ghana tried to control the price of its cocoa. Buyers showed them shege. They had to promptly receive sense and cry for mercy).

3. VAT revenue last year was less than 7 trillion. Our budget this year was 54 TRILLION. Vat cannot fund our budget sufficently.

4. Tax to gdp for Nigeria is less than 10%...less than for Ghana, Niger and even Azania. And all those countries have issues like we do on budget.

The truth is, we can't afford to be tax free.

And calling me slave does not change things. I did not vote for APC or PDP, and they are both not my people. But if a harlot calls a dirty child dirty , bathe the child instead of abusing the harlot.

Wetin you wan use our taxes do, to dey find Natasha kpekus, abi? Unserious being

There is no way that up to 60 million people in Nigeria pay tax, even in Lagos its not up to 30% of workers that pay, so it now farmers in Benue and traders in the East paying tax shey....Akapabio as usual does not know what he is saying.

Akwa ibom people are mischievous people even their brothers from Calabar dont identify with them. Very anyhow people

spiSeyi:

And how well have they managed the 30% he who is faithful in little will be faithful in many

You cannot determine how well it has been managed when ONLY 30% are paying. At least, we still have free education and healthcare.

To say this istration was actually saying no be statistics we go chop during campaign

What changed? Cos na only statistics Dem dey give us chop

Mind you, if you say income tax, what is the percentage of those with real employment

Most people run different errands to get something to put for belle, so its still the government failing to equip the citizens the more

And what about the VAT, no be directly government dey collect that one??

So how come we no dey pay?

franchasng:
because a slave to the ruling class said so, isorai

NO argument, no sane comment, just calling me a slave.

Thanks. I used to respect you. No longer.

How many percent embezzle public funds?
That's the more pertinent question.

Seems this man only gets angry and talks out of point whenever he's KONJIFIED...

YOUR EXELLENCY RT. HON GODSWILL APKABIO,


ON BEHALF OUR FELLOW NIGERIANS THAT REFUSED TO PAY TAX, I WOULD LIKE TO SINCERELY APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR INABILITY TO PAY TAX.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE OUR NIGERIAN PEOPLE ??

DO THEY NOT KNOW THAT IF THEY PAY TAX, THERE WILL BE MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR THE GOVT TO USE AND DEVELOP NASS SO THAT THEY WILL ALWAYS GET MILLIONS EACH MONTH, WHILE THESE USELESS TAX DODGERS RECEIVE JUST N70K OR BELOW A MONTH ??

GO TO THE UK, , JAPAN, CHINA, AUSTRAILIA, SWEDEN, DENMARK,RUSSIA, THEIR LEGISLATORS RECIEVE SO MUCH MONEY PER MONTH THAT THEY NEED BULLION VANS TO TAKE HOME THEIR MONTHLY PAY.

RT. HON AKPABIO, PLS DO NOT A LAW FORCING NIGERIANS TO SHOW YOU WHEN THEIR POTS OF SOUP IS RICHLY PREPARED OR NOT.

INFACT, IT IS BETTER THAT NIGERIANS ARE TAXED ANY DAY THEY DID NOT EAT.

IF NIGERIANS START CALLING YOU A CROOK AND YOU HAVE THEM ARRESTED, THEY WILL THEN SAY IT WAS THE DEVIL' HANDWORK.

ONE-DAY ONE-DAY, THESE NIGERIANS THAT REFUSED TO PAY TAX MAY DECIDE TO STORM NASS AND TEAR YOUR HONOURABLE COLLEAGUES TO PIECES.

SENATOR GODSWILL AKPABIO, WAIT FOR NIGERIANS.

THEY WILL COME FOR YOU VERY SOON

NB:

I HAVE NEVER PAID ANY TAX IN MY LIFE BEFORE BECAUSE I HAVE NOT SEEN WHAT YOU USED THE MONEY OTHER NIGERIANS PAID BEFORE TO DO ................

I AM IN MY VILLAGE WAITING ON YOU TO COME FOR ME ...

TNX

nairalanda1:


Unfortunately, he is right.

It is not possible!! Ordinary bank transfer charges..FG collects tax in form of stamp duty on top everybody.

fat fuvking fo0l

CoronaVirusPro:


Exactly, A nation with over 200 million people should be tax free.

It's not possible.


If you want Nigeria to be tax free, oil has to sell at 150 dollars per barrel, and we have to produce 2.4-10 million barrels of it daily. Then we can talk about freedom from taxes.

Anytime this idiot talk I dey always vex

completeskills:

It is not possible!! Ordinary bank transfer charges..FG collects tax in form of stamp duty on top everybody.

1. Most Nigerians do not use banks.

2. At the end of the day, stamp duty is less than 1-2% of every transfer. The man is referring to things like income tax, which most of us do not pay because most of us are in the informal sector.

Most Nigerians pay taxes on consumption of imported items like rice, groceries etc
It’s not only income tax that’s a tax. Import duties, VAT, market women taxes etc which are all ed on to the consumer

Akpabio is not among the 30% of the people that PAY TAX in Nigeria.

Aify147:
Wetin you wan use our taxes do, to dey find Natasha kpekus, abi? Unserious being

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Less than 1% eat the tax

CoronaVirusPro:
And those 70% that don’t pay are the ones who want Nigeria to sur the UK.

They cannot pay in Nigeria but will run to another country to go pay same taxes.

Your naivety amazes me

This one of the type of uselesss creature the " most "educaated" & the most "sophisticated" ed to be made SP

Well nothing new. Thessme creatures ed Nepa Bill back to back & later with an irreparable damaged fake certificate holder

CoronaVirusPro:
And those 70% that don’t pay are the ones who want Nigeria to sur the UK.

They cannot pay in Nigeria but will run to another country to go pay same taxes.

What percentage of citizens has govt provided gainful employments for?

While 1% of the population including shameless and insatiable crooks like you loots it with reckless abandon!🤨🤨🤨🥱🥱🥱
Awon eleribu,Ole, jegudu jera gbogbo!!😎😎😎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎🤙🤙👎👎👎👎

[quote author=Antoeni post=134278595]Can you Imagine What is Coming Out From
Most Useless Senseless Irresponsible Insensitive Indisciplined Unserious Nigeria Senate President Ever.

Is The Tax The Problem or Those Stealing and Misappropriating it?[/q

Only 1% eat and enjoy the tax, what is the essence of paying it, only to be looted by the political elite

This man should first wonder what per cent of Nigerians have formal jobs.

Nigeria has one of the highest rates of informal taxation I’ve witnessed anywhere in the world.
People with sticks and reflector vests are tax collectors and do not remit to the government.

Every Nigerian pays VAT Mr Senate president,
Every Nigerian using public transport (air, land and sea) indirectly pays tax
Every Nigerian who owns a bank pays tax
Every employed Nigerian pays tax

Kindly educate yourself Mr Senate president.

Only 10% of tax is utilized by govt for the citizens.- FOT

Here is a PwC report from 2016...

According to the t Tax Board, there are ten
million people (precisely 10,006,304) ed
for personal income tax purposes in all the states
of the federation including the FCT. Out of this,
about 4.6 million or 46% are ed with the
Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS)
indicating an average of 153,000 or 1.5% per state
for others.

Compared to the labour workforce of 77 million at
the end of 2015 according to the National Bureau
of Statistics (NBS), the number of people in the
tax net is only 13%.

Pwc report :Guess how many Nigerians pay tax
and how our government spends the
money . Oyedele 2016.

Yankee101:
Most Nigerians pay taxes on consumption of imported items like rice, groceries etc
It’s not only income tax that’s a tax. Import duties, VAT, market women taxes etc which are all ed on to the consumer

The problem is, that the income tax revenue is paid by less than 30% of the population. (PwC put it at 13% in 2016)...working population.

IMport duties are not up to 10 trillion, VAT was 7 trillion last year, and that cannot fund out budget at all.

While he's not among the 30% ..