Nigeria’s minority caucus confirmed illegal alterations in recently gazetted tax lawsDiscrepancies were found between the passed tax laws and the official gazetted versionsHouse committee highlighted procedural anomalies impacting legislative integrityLegit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering politics, elections, public affairs, and governance in Nigeria and Africa.
FCT, Abuja – The minority caucus of the House of Representatives has confirmed that some of Nigeria’s recently gazetted tax laws were illegally altered after being passed by the National Assembly and assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
As reported on Friday, January 23, by Daily Trust, this was disclosed in an interim report of the minority caucus ad-hoc Committee on Tax Laws, set up to investigate allegations of discrepancies between the tax reform Acts passed by the legislature and the versions published in the official gazette.
Members of the House of Representatives panel confirm recent changes to Nigeria’s gazetted tax laws. Photo credit: @NigeriaStories
Source: TwitterAIT also noted the development.
The controversy followed public outrage after a member of the House, Abdulsamad Dasuki (PDP, Sokoto), raised the alarm on the floor of the chamber over the alleged discrepancies between the gazetted tax laws in circulation and the version passed by the National Assembly.
The House of Representatives minority caucus ad-hoc Committee on tax laws made the disclosure of the ‘alterations’ in its interim report on allegations of discrepancies between the laws passed by parliament and versions later published in the official gazette.
The committee said that bycomparing the Certified True Copies of the Acts released officially by the House of Representatives as directed by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, with the already gazetted version already in circulation before the alarm was raised by the House, it could can confirm “that there were some alterations as alleged by Dasuki on the floor of the House of Representatives, especially in the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025”.
Lawmaker Abdulsamad Dasuki raises alarm over alterations in Nigeria’s tax reform laws. Photo credit: @breakingnewsnig
Source: TwitterProcedural errors found in taxIt added:
“There were three different versions of the documents in circulation, particularly the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025. The order to the Clerk of the National Assembly, to take steps to ‘aligning the Acts – duly passed, assented to, and certified – with the Federal Government Printing Press to ensure accuracy, conformity, and uniformity,’ is a clear indication that there were some procedural anomalies in the previously gazetted version that illegally encroached on the core mandate of the National Assembly, as the only organ of government constitutionally empowered to make laws for the good of the people, as prescribed.“This is a grave concern that would be deeply looked into.”Read more on tax reform bills:
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Source: Legit.ng
