A netizen has called out the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC over failure to question government functionaries involved in the alleged alteration of Nigeria’s newly gazetted tax reform law.
Nigerian lawmakers had last year raised concerns over alleged unauthorized changes to the country’s new tax reform laws, which took effect on January 1, 2026.
The House of Representatives’ Minority Caucus claims the gazetted versions contain provisions that weren’t approved by Parliament, including changes to tax compliance reporting thresholds and expanded powers for tax authorities.
The disputed changes include lowered reporting thresholds, with the individual threshold reduced from N50 million to N25 million, potentially bringing more Nigerians under the tax net.
The changes also allow for arrests and asset seizures without court orders, and remove oversight provisions like quarterly and annual reports to Parliament.
Stirring the controversy at an event on Saturday, Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde faulted the Tinubu administration’s handling of the new tax laws.
The governor, who had last September declined assent to the tax bill at the state level after it was passed by the state assembly, noted that the situation is different with Tinubu and Shettima’s administration.
He cited their refusal to withdraw the tax bill that has now been passed into law.
“But we had the same situation in this dispensation; it was the tax bill, and we said, ‘Look, bring the tax bill; bring it back; let us all have an opportunity to look dispassionately at it,’ but you cannot speak truth to power in this dispensation; the tax bill will go ahead,” Makinde said.
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Responding to the governor’s criticism of the Bola Tinubu administration, https://x.com/Toseguy/status/2015132883564851408?s=20a user on X, @Toseguy wondered why some government functionaries including the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele after the alleged alteration.
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