NASU Decries Excessive Taxation on Workers via thisdaylive
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions has asked the federal government to do something about the excessive and multiple taxation being imposed on its members.
In the statement issued on Sunday by the General Secretary of NASU, Prince Peters Adeyemi, the union lamented the situation where workers especially those in the low income bracket are subjected to all manner of taxes. “In either case, the worker ends up paying the company tax. The first is that the worker pays the cost of the tax when he pays for the product at a higher price, the tax having been factored into the price of the good.
“Workers who have entered into tenancy agreements, written or unwritten and are not able to meet this obligations are evicted from the houses and made homeless,” it said. “When it is all added up, it is only NASU members and other workers as well as the downtrodden masses of this country that pay taxes. These burden of excessive and multiple taxation has impoverished the average worker in Nigeria. The salaries and wages paid to them can no longer be regarded as living wage as they have become slave wages, forcing our members to live below internationally declared poverty line.
Under the extant NHF Law , every Nigerian earning N3,000 or more per annum is required to contribute 2.5 per cent of their monthly basic salary to the NHF.
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