The Lagos State Government appears to have boosted its tax revenue drive by focusing on entertainers, writes ONOZURE DANIA
Also, an ex-Super Eagles captain Austine Okocha popularly known as Jay Jay Okocha, was issued a bench warrant of arrest on January 29, 2019, for failing to pay his income tax.
Consequently, after several adjournments without the defendant appearing in court after service had been effected on him, the prosecutor urged the court to issue a bench warrant against him. In his comment on the issue, A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Kunle Adegoke, described tax as statutory which everybody was liable to pay tax on his or her income.
He explained that they must be ready to look into their finances and that they could dispute what the government imposed as payable taxes, noting however that they would be required to show the income upon which their taxes would be computed. Another lawyer, Mr Niyi Lawal, said there must be a yardstick for which one is being taxed to see the correlation with what an individual earns. He further said that tax in Nigeria was not properly done.
Ajanaku said, “If they tell any lies in those documents, the government can go ahead and make an in-depth investigation processed by a tax authority to recover tax undercharged in previous years of assessment. This is carried out when a taxpayer is suspected of tax evasion.”
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