The Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Mohammed Ali Ndume, on Wednesday, aligned with leaders of Northern extraction in opposing plans by the Federal Government to review the tax regime of the country upward.
Ndume, in a statement in Abuja, said the Federal Government must get things right first, expand sources of income for Nigerians and ensure that the people are living and not surviving, before reviewing the taxes upward. The former Leader of the Senate said the middle class of the country is gradually fading, as they are being squeezed out by the high inflation. “This tax they’re talking about, we are almost losing the middle class in Nigeria. It is either you have it or you do not have it.
These big companies do not even declare their income, not to talk of getting the appropriate taxes. “I am one of those opposing that tax bill in the National Assembly. I am not going to support it. In fact, I am going to start campaigning against the increase in tax for now because it does not only affect the north but the average Nigerian. “I am not saying people should not pay tax, but do not go and tax people that are struggling to survive.
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