Tax Laws: Tinubu Wants All Power To Himself - ADC | Independent Newspaper Nigeria

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "The ADC's position on the so-called tax reforms has been made clear.
47% : The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has not only demanded the immediate suspension of tax law following allegation of alterations, but noted that through the tax law, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu desires to concentrate all powers onto himself.
47% : The party, which also called for a public inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the criminal alterations of a duly passed law, and to ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice, added that after a serious forensic review noted that key accountability provisions had been deleted and new provisions inserted which granted coercive powers to the Executive in the enforcement of the tax laws without recourse to the court.
46% : " The opposition party therefore called for "immediate suspension of all the 2025 tax laws that has been signed by President Bola Tinubu to allow for a full legislative review.
44% : The opposition party demanded the immediate suspension of the tax laws to allow the legislature to determine the extent of forgery that has been inserted by the Tinubu administration and to take necessary corrective actions.
44% : "ADC's forensic review of the original laws and the gazetted versions have also established beyond all doubts that key accountability provisions had been deleted and new provisions inserted which granted coercive powers to the Executive in the enforcement of the tax laws without recourse to the court.
42% : "The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has reviewed various reports which confirms doubts that the various tax laws which was passed by the National Assembly and signed into law by President Bola Tinubu contains substantial forgery of key provisions that were not in the original law passed by the legislature.
42% : But this issue goes beyond taxations.
40% : ADC, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, called for immediate suspension of the tax laws, scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2026.
39% : For example, one of the criminal insertions into the laws grants the government of Bola Tinubu the express power to arrest and take over the property of anyone who does not comply with the tax laws.
39% : We do not support any tax that is more likely to compound the misery and hardship already faced by citizens and businesses.

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