Zacchaeus Adedeji, special adviser to the president on revenue, says the federal government has no intention to impose new taxes on Nigerians.
He said rather than introduce new taxes, the government would ensure it improves collection of existing taxes.
“As you rightly said that there’s a plan or possibly proposal for petroleum tax, if you look at the current price templates, that has already been included, so this suspension has nothing to do with that. So the pricing structure that you have for PMS today, all those have been included, there’s no new taxes that we’re bringing in,” the special adviser said.
“Our aim is not to tax production. Our aim is to increase our productive activities, capacity to produce, then we can tax our consumption and that is the direction of our economic planning and then we want to increase the trust that we have in the government.
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