The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said that the only people against the Tax Reform Bills are the governors.
Bwala said this while countering the notion that the
northern region is against the bills.
Recall that in the early stage of the bills, a joint meeting of the Northern Governors Forum and the Northern Traditional Rulers Council had rejected the Tax Reform Bill forwarded to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu on October 3, 2024, forwarded a tax reform bill to
the Senate and House of Representatives for approval.
Part of the bill provides reforms in the sector, including
changing the name of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, to the Nigeria
Revenue Service, NRS.
”The tax reform bills have come to stay, and they will be
passed. Let us forget that it is the North vs. the South; it is the governors
who are going to be impacted,” Bwala said during an interview on Channels
Television.
“It is the governors from states where their income will
reduce if the derivation is applied. These set of governors are in the majority
of the states and not limited to the North.
“Maybe the governors from the north have decided to be vocal
about it.
“But in the midst of this cacophony of positions between the
governors and the federal government remember, even the case of Local
Government autonomy it wasn’t a case of region it was still the governors
because local government autonomy from the beginning was considered an
initiative that would weaken their powers…”
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