The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has said for development to occur in any society, the people must have access to proper health care to stay fit and healthy to operate. Speaking yesterday in Abuja at the flag-off ceremony of the NYSC Special Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD), he…
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By Peter Ibrahim |
Typically, majority of Nigerians evade tax and most of those that even perform this civic responsibility do so grudgingly. According to the Joint Tax Board (JTB), only 14 million citizens paid taxes in 2017 out of 70 million economically active persons in the country. This ranks the country as having the lowest tax to GDP ratio in the world. Specifically, it ranks 6%, in contrast to India, Ghana and South African which had 16%, 15.9%, and 27% respectively during the period under review.
However, the Governor Nasir El-Rufai APC administration is changing this mindset in Kaduna state. The administration has created a new tax law that consolidated all existing taxes in the state, created the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) as the only revenue collecting agency and ended the regime of cash payments. The new tax law brought many small businesses into the tax net. In spite of this, defaults still abound as not many are keen on paying taxes, believing f