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Nigeria: Group Raps Fashola Over Tax Policy
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This Day (Lagos)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Lagos
Mainland Mandate Group (MMG), a socio-political group, has kicked vehemently against plans by Governor Babatunde Fashola-led administration to introduce a new tax system which it said will provide that Lagosians must, as a mandatory requirement, show their tax identity card as proof of tax payment or risk arrest and prosecution.
The group, in a statement signed in Lagos, said it is worrisome that such a policy is being done clandestinely without allowing the public to make necessary inputs because of its far reaching consequences, adding "it is evident that the state is no longer solvent due to obvious mismanagement of its huge fund accruals and borrowings and has therefore resorted to desperate measures.
Describing Lagos as the only state where multiple tax levies continues to impact negatively on the productive sector coupled with the failure by government to provide quality essential service to the public, MMG queried the rationale behind the new tax policy and called for a rethink. "Eleven months down the lane, Governor Fashola lacks clear-cut vision and direction. All we hear and see are misguided aggression and the chasing of shadows; we do not hear of people oriented programmes instead, callousness had become an art of governance, people's homes and businesses are pulled down flagrantly without notices and compensations while traders are chased out of their rented shops with horsewhips, designated market locations are destroyed with those affected left with no alternatives to sustain their existence, it said, adding.
"This government has so far ruled with iron fists and seems bent on raising the tempo of suffering in the state with its planned repressive tax policy."
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