President Muhammadu Buhari has proposed an exemption of
minimum wage earners from personal income tax.
The proposal, which will be included contained in the 2020
finance bill, is expected to reduce the effect of inflation on low income
earners in the country.
On Saturday, Nigeria officially slid into its worst economic
recession in over three decades.
According to gross domestic product numbers released by the
National Bureau of Statistics, the nation recorded a contraction of 3.62
percent in the third quarter of 2020.
The last time Nigeria recorded such cummulative GDP was in
1987, when GDP declined by 10.8 percent.
At its sitting on Wednesday, the federal executive council
approved the 2020 finance bill which, among others, seeks to amend various acts
of 13 taxes, including the personal income tax act.
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national
planning, said the bill will improve the country’s tax laws while also reducing
some taxes especially for small businesses in addition to those already reduced
in the 2019 finance bill.
Ahmed said the bill will be transmitted to the national
assembly for consideration and passage into law.
In a tweet on Monday, the presidency announced that the bill
will also include exemption of minimum wage earners from personal income tax to
cushion the effect of inflation.
“In order to reduce the impact of inflation on Nigerians,
the President Muhammedu Buhari administration, is, through the 2020 Finance
Bill, proposing the exemption of minimum wage earners from Personal Income
Tax,” the tweet reads.
In April 2019, Buhari signed the national minimum wage bill
into law. The senate and house of representatives had earlier passed the bill
approving N30,000 as the new national minimum wage.
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