Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on the Northern governors and senators to focus their attention on economically liberating and empowering their peoples. The call came as members of the National Assembly are currently divided along regional lines over the Tax Reform Bills recently introduced by President Bola Tinubu.
The rights group further appealed to Nigerian senators and House of Representatives members to engage in merit-based debates around the new tax reform bills so as to ascertain the long-term impacts, merits or demerits, rather the igniting ethnic and regional tensions over the matter.
said the conversations around the proposed tax reform bills should not be reduced to convoluted political theatrics. recalls that the President had, on September 3, transmitted four tax reform bills to the National Assembly for consideration. The bills are the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024, which is expected to provide the fiscal framework for taxation in the country, and the Tax Administration Bill, which will provide a clear and concise legal framework for all taxes in the country and reduce disputes.
reports that the major burning issue around the debate is the proposed paradigm shift to a derivation-based model for Value Added Tax distribution, which would allocate tax revenue to the states where goods and services are consumed, rather than where companies have their headquarters. The bills have been rejected outrightly by the 19 northern governors and traditional rulers based on unscientific reasons.
condemned what it described as the ethnicization of the debate on the proposed tax reform bills especially by Northern political elites. 'As for us in the organised human rights community in Nigeria, we sincerely hope that the debates should be healthy, robustly focused on evidence, benefits, merits and demerits.
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