User09:


Not true.

The tax base in Nigeria is unbelievably low. Even to the point of ridiculousness.

Both the formal sector and informal sector are not being captured adequately for tax purposes

GloriousGbola:



izzou gold circle has your condom burst again

this is uer09s post

ShaqFu:
Ma main man. Don't make it look like it is only Buhari who is guilty of this. It's a Nigerian thing.

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izzou:


I pay 8,000 per year to the Local government for my shop. This is apart from other ridiculous tickets that come up once in a while

Imagine collecting that amount from all shops in Ado-Odo/Ota local government. Yet, that amount is not captured in the tax data

Every Okada rider buys ticket every single day to operate. Some go as high as 1,000 sef. Yet it is not captured.

I just wanted to repeat his comment so it will sound true to me.

iamoyindamola:

Thank you, sir
You are a good man

monerozi5590:



Mentioned names of people and types of corruption.
I want to understand you very well.

Infrastructure Buhari pass Jonathan. I don't need Google for this.

Social Investment Programme. Buhari pass am. I don't need Google for this.

Encouraging Local production. Buhari pass am.

Agricultural Revolution, Buhari pass am. About 13 million jobs was created because of that and so many industries sprang up unlike Jonathan that killed Local production.

Watin Jonathan pass Buhari for, make una talk.

Nigerians were enjoying subsidy on imported goods and they think it was all Jonathan. Never knew Jonathan was spending money recklessly instead of addressing that. We ate our money on one day without thinking about tomorrow.

BlueRayDick:
This thread go reach page 2000 this weekend that is upon us ; This I have seen !

GloriousGbola:


i know na. when they give you caution that has no rhyme or reason. it is clear it is chop money. you will see so many pf them around those ticket gambling machines as you are driving through your route. it is why i now like fking with them. i carry two sets of LGA papers - the expired and the up to date. they stop me, i flash the expired paper, they start getting belligerent - park well park well.

i park, they sit beside me, start saying we have to go to their office, at which point i show them the up to date papers and tell them to get out of my car. useless baggers with no work.

Driving a pick up truck or a bus is serious headache.

Then when it is red plated?

DontBullshitMe:

The saintly politicians who will stop stealing and turn the country into South Korea and Germany.

Where are they?

We have elections every 4 years but we keep missing them.

DontBullshitMe:

Social Investment Programme - Welfarism with zero transparency and accountability.

Local Production - Truly Buhari increased Nigeria's Manufacturing to GDP ratio from 9% to 15% but we are still doing poorly especially if you consider that our GDP is not growing under Buhari.

Agricultural Revolution - How do we measure this if not through prices of food? On an average, Nigerians budget more % of their income for food now than
pre-2015.

Job creation - In which/what sector? Nigeria has about 33% unemployment rate now.

Buhari probably outdid Jonathan "infrastructurally" speaking but in other areas, I humbly disagree.

izzou:


I pay 8,000 per year to the Local government for my shop. This is apart from other ridiculous tickets that come up once in a while

Imagine collecting that amount from all shops in Ado-Odo/Ota local government. Yet, that amount is not captured in the tax data

Every Okada rider buys ticket every single day to operate. Some go as high as 1,000 sef. Yet it is not captured.

I just wanted to repeat his comment so it will sound true to me.

larride:


MC that his own people will be smoking and chilling on election day. Mtchew

GloriousGbola:
The only president who can be said to have done anything about corruption was Obj. At the very least I remember how tafa balogun was summarily punished

Under gej, there were zero consequences for numerous scandals. One of the reasons Buhari was voted in was because we expected zero tolerance for corruption. That did not happen.

Both Buhari and gej failed woefully as far as tackling corruption is concerned.

GloriousGbola:


i am not sure of this.

what i believe is happening is that a lot of informal tax is a black hole that goes into some peoples pockets

i drive a pickup with commercial plates. this means i have to pay local govt fees yearly. there are two or three fees paid mid year. unlike vehicle license - these have to be paid at local govt. you can pay your vehicle license in a bank. but these local govt charges - they are going straight into the pockets of the task force.

there are a lot of taxes collected from artisans, hawkers etc - that are also going straight to pockets and not to govt.

even with businesses - there are often complaints from workers that tax was deducted from their payslip, but no evidence of tax payment

User09:


There is this and there's also the fact that the tax captured is really small compared to what it should be. I'll give a simple example.

According to Nigeria tax laws, As a Corporate or Individual, Every single time you pay for a service - Artisans, Plumbers, Electricians, Installers, Domestic workers, The law says you are to deduct 5% or 10% (depending on the nature of the service) as WHT from these payments. These deductions should ideally go into the govt coffers

Do you honestly think these happens?. Think about the volume of these transactions that goes on daily and then you can quantify how much escapes the tax net.

As for corporates deducting and not remiting, Not surprising though as anything goes in Nigeria. Probably bribing the tax officials.

GloriousGbola:
the summary [for me] is that both gej and buhari left this country in a worse state than they met it

how much of that can be tied to external factors and how much of that can be tied to personal competence is debatable

but in the end, neither of them added much value to nigeria or the lives of nigerians

GloriousGbola:


As an aside The wht may actually be ultimately easy to implement. Mandate all artisans to have a business account. So any transfer to the account is automatically deducted. I believe This can work because In lag, I already pay all artisans via transfer.

Amigoss:


8000 per year as tax? Let the naija based rich men on this group who spend ×10 on that on drinking hero beer in different states and our abrodians who will convert theirs to naira wake up,you go hear ween

Wait o,stamp duty and other ridiculous charges when you are credited no follow for tax too and are not going to govt?

A001:

The leaders are a reflection of the people, and something is fundamentally with Africans.

At the roots of the leadership problem and corruption plaguing Nigeria lie various core issues such as disdain for critical thinking and philosophy, religion (the foreign religions), and tribalism.

Rational people are few and far between in this part of the world, and any society with very few intelligent minds hardly develops.

The black race is much less intelligent than the other races. That's a fact, and the evidence for this assertion abounds. Compounding the problem is the issue of brain drain where the few highly intelligent people in Africa relocate to the West.

Amoto94:
Whenever i see things like this, i don’t even talk because some people are pathological liars and clout chasers. That’s me and my dad o! But just imagine the caption!.

https://mobile.twitter.com/maryam_Jidayi/status/1636369410016567302

DontBullshitMe:

That is because GEJ and Buhari are corrupt thieves. Imagine the money budgeted for food in Aso Rock monthly, that money if invested in Nigeria will have transformed the country to Taiwan by now.

I hope that one day, saintly Messiahs will eventually be elected across all political offices in Nigeria. Together, they will grow the country economy from below a trillion dollars to 20 trillion dollars.

These saintly Messiahs who will rule Nigeria will have no convoys, they will always take public transport, all Government vehicles will be sold and by totally cutting the cost of governance, in little time, Nigeria will tower above Japan and Germany.

By the time the saintly Messiah who will rule Kogi state becomes Governor. Once he sells all the Government assets and invest the money in Kogi state. Kogi will begin to compete with New York.

I will wait for these Messiahs to be elected.

liveLongNprospa:


Lmao please do not let us talk about the North and child bribe okay bro?

liveLongNprospa:


Are you bullshitting me?

Amoto94:

You are one of the leading ignoramus on this thread so you are not worth the time.

liveLongNprospa:


Lmao Amo.to94 I would rather be An ignoramus than be a sorry attempt of a human being like you😁.

The last time you probably reasoned like a human being was as a baby🤭

DontBullshitMe:

The bolded is a very strong statement.

Amoto94:

Coming from you I will take it as a compliment