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Carpenters, taxi drivers should be made to pay tax, they make a lot of money daily – Lawmaker

Goodluck by Goodluck
October 16, 2021
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A member of the House of Representatives, Fakeye Olufemi, has opined that self-employed small business owners and artisans including carpenters and taxi drivers should be made to pay tax.

Fakeye who represents Boluwaduro/Ifedayo/Ila federal constituency of Osun state in the house, said this while making his contributions to the 2022 budget debate during plenary session on Wednesday, October 13.

The finance act 2020 exempts small companies with an annual turnover of not more than N25 million from paying company income tax (CIT).

While calling for the businesses to be taxed, Fakeye opined that this will be another source of revenue for the federal government to finance the budget.

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He said; “Why I salute the honourable speaker and my colleagues herein seated and even the senate for complying with the request by the executive that we reset the button to a January to December cycle for budget making; I think it is fair to expect that if we do that — which we have done, there should be a properly timed implementation of the budget. I know it is easy to talk, it is more difficult to implement.

I like to tell the executive; if you are going to borrow to implement the project for a year — they should be borrowing January, February and March not borrowing or trying to arrange the borrowing in the third or fourth quarter of the year for which you want to implement.

I like to tell the executive; if you are going to borrow to implement the project for a year — they should be borrowing January, February and March not borrowing or trying to arrange the borrowing in the third or fourth quarter of the year for which you want to implement.

”I’m aware right now and it has been said here that only two quarterly releases have been made now — we are in the last quarter of the year. That makes a joke of all the effort that we put in day in, day out to ensure that the budget is passed in time.

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And I pay attention to revenue shortfall for the government and I begin to ask myself and I recall when I was young, everybody pays taxes. Whether you are a farmer, your daddy was a carpenter, whatever he did for a living, he paid tax.

”Now we have tended to forgive everybody their taxation except those who have an income where the tax is taken out of your income and the rest paid to you.

I think our tax reform should be such that every Nigerian has a chance to contribute. Go out there and talk to 80 percent or 90 percent of the people of Nigeria, a lot of them that are self-employed; they don’t pay tax anymore

”So when we hear FIRS or tax organisations, even the tax joint board widening the tax net; why do they shy away from finding a way to make people pay — whether you are a carpenter, you are a taxi driver, you are selling rice in the market — these people make a lot of money but they don’t get to pay nothing. So I think that is an area I would like to see revenue-boosting.”

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