Kobojunkie:

I understand what you mean there but my question still stands. Here is an example, We have unions and these unions consist of individuals/ businesses, when it comes to paying taxes, does the IRS go to the unions or contacts each tax payer individually to get that fee paid? People have tax ids as individuals/businesses. so why was this decision based on the response from the "duly elected representatives" and not on the individual business entities paying or not paying their taxes?

Kobojunkie:

1) Is Alaba market one business entity or does it house more than one business entity? I ask this because businesses usually register for business licenses individually and so are not bundle together with others come tax time.

2) Does a union rep really matter when it comes to individual business taxation process?

3) Are you also assuming that 100% of the store owners/businesses were behind on taxes?

These people, meaning individual businesses housed in Alaba market. Did the government contact the “Individual” businesses or is it that government contacted only the ‘elected representatives’ in this case?

1) Why shut down a whole market and not individual businesses in the market that are behind in taxes? Is this a legal move by the state governor or simply government taking the law into its hands?

2) Tax evasion is not new to Lagos and is not really the problem here, however, government is always supposed to approach this legally, no matter what or who is involved.

QuotaSyste:

Anuofia, this shouldn't be about tax collection and evassion, but about PROPER way of tax collection and PROPER means of stoping tax evasion. Do you now get that into that you thick empty skull? Fight it from the root and not fire brigade approach as it's obtained in your useless country nigeria. Which sane society goes about hounding people to pay their taxes instead puting mechanism in place that will make people pay and not have means to evade taxes? Ewu, i ask you again, do you read what i wrote above?
If your fashola and your people don't have anything bad against Igbo, then start to put up proper means of tax collection or else start your dubious means of tax collection with Yoruba businesses and then we can know you are really not against some people. Which facts have you? Useless facts that doesn't say anything about how proper tax should be collected in socities. Are those suposed to be facts? You just get up one day, organise some alayes and give them uniforms, call them one kind tax collector's name and send them to Igbo markets to start collecting taxes or else close their shops? Is that not madness? And you come here to defend such means of tax collection. Ewu awusa.

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Amakaone@

If you can honestly tell me how many times you and your relatives in Naija who don't pay taxes have been hounded by govt agents, then there is  a discrimantory application of  govt laws in shutting down these markets.
Let the justice we all yearn for start from us.

QuotaSyste:

Shut up for goodness sake. If you don't see the wicked writing on the wall and call it what is it, then you are a fool. And don't bring that you are Igbo card to play here cause it doesn't convince anyone. You can equally tell us how all your friends are Igbos, or is that out of fashion for you guys? Which reasonable people/country uses such idiotic way in making people pay their taxes? is Alaba and Ikaja IT markets the only markets in Lagos?

Why don't they start from Yoruba or awusa dominated markets or put up a solid tax collecting system in place? You don't go hounding people in their shops and telling them to pay tax. Which tax? How do you know how muh such person and the other person made in each month and how much they have to pay as taxes? or do you want to tell us that in your useless country nigeria, that tax is fixed at a particular amount that every business owner must pay? You don't put in place a mechanism to help you know how much each an everyone of them make everyday, week and month, yet you want to collect taxes from them? How much do you want them to pay so you can be satisfied? is that how countries grow? A country that have fixed rate taxes?

Don't you read up what i wrote above about how reasonable people/countries use to collect taxes from their citizens without any hassle and on the process  creat jobs for it's citizens? Ewu, why must your beloved nigeria's own be any different, yet when they want to start with their dubious ways of collecting taxes, they will first start it with Igbo businesses? Ewu, i am here to say it as it is. If you want to hide under what ever "i am Igbo" that's your own fukcing business, but try your best to say things as they are.

Tapiya:

The story of the Killings in Jos town is just re-writing itself again, they are out there again and have start another set of Riots, Yeah I support a one Nigeria but what happens when someone comes to your house then brings in his brothers and discovers hes got a larger family then from there he wants to take over your house what will you do? Allow him take over or what? is that how its done? when a Visitor wants to rule you because you were friendly with him and the next thing he wants to claim your property. We have to do something about that and in my own opinion our Visitors are taking us so much for Granted I don't advocate Violence but the Government should stand up to it and spell out things clearly.

We are for Peace but be carefull not to push the goat to the wall, he could develop teeth.

just1n:

Na ibo chicks easy pass. . . . Just apply yahoo boys skills. D3m tu like ego.

bluespice:

ok what of ecs

rapattorny:

Which are easier to toast Yoruba girls or Igbo chicks?
AS i delta guy no strees for tosting chicks at all,it comes naturally from many,many experiences but i've found out yoruba chicks fall easier than Igbo chicks cause they tend to don't want much.

MrCrackles:

Me i only eat Deer or Whalemeat!!

jay bee:

stunning

MrCrackles:

Why are you mean to me today beau.?

Any probs?!

HR.hotness:

if u've ever tasted it, u'd knw it is all worth it

bluespice:

HR.hotness:

@ Amakaone

can u please send me an email, urs isnt on ur profile and theres sumthin i need to ask u, not food related