US EditionTax Laws: Lawmakers Too Docile, Fundamentally Compromised - Mahdi Shehu
The committee found multiple illegal alterations in key tax laws, including lowered thresholds and new pre-appeal deposits, raising concerns over legislative integrity, the Minority Caucus said.
- On January 23, the House Minority Caucus confirmed some recently gazetted tax laws were illegally altered after passage and presidential assent, citing an interim report by the Minority caucus ad-hoc Committee on Tax Laws.
- On January 2, the caucus formed a seven-member fact-finding committee, and on January 3, Rep. Akintunde Rotimi announced Speaker Abbas Tajudeen's directive to release and verify the Acts, which the committee said caused procedural anomalies.
- The committee flagged amendments to Section 29 and new subsections 41 and 41, mandating a 20 per cent pre-appeal deposit, which they said are absent from the authentic version.
- The panel has asked for more time to complete its probe, with Ogene thanking the Minority Caucus leadership and pledging to protect the National Assembly's constitutional powers.
- The committee found discrepancies including expanded enforcement powers under Section 64, granting powers of arrest and asset sale without court orders, and alterations to federal tax definitions in Sections 3 and 39.
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Tax laws: Lawmakers too docile, fundamentally compromised - Mahdi Shehu
Public affairs commentator, Mahdi Shehu has accused Nigerian lawmakers of being too docile and fundamentally compromised following revelations that the gazetted version of the Tax Law 2025 was altered from what was passed by the National Assembly. Shehu made the allegation in a post on X on Friday while reacting to the interim report of an ad-hoc committee set up by the House of Representatives to investigate the controversy surrounding the law.…
We've Confirmed Alterations In Gazetted Tax Laws - Reps Panel
The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has confirmed that some of Nigeria’s recently gazetted tax laws were illegally altered after being passed by the National Assembly and assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This was disclosed in an interim report of the Minority Caucus Ad-hoc Committee on Tax Laws, set up to investigate allegations of discrepancies between the tax reform Acts passed by the legislature and the versions pub…
House Minority Caucus Confirms Alterations To Gazetted Tax Laws - Voice of Nigeria Broadcasting Service
The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives says it has confirmed that some of Nigeria’s recently gazetted tax laws were illegally altered after being passed by the National Assembly and assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The confirmation was contained in a statement issued by the Minority Caucus Ad-hoc Committee on Tax Laws, headed by Mr Afam Ogene, in Abuja . The Ad-Hoc committee was set up to investigate allegations of discre…
House of Reps Minority Caucus Identifies Alterations in Gazetted Tax Laws
By Modupe Gbadeyanka The House of Representatives Minority Caucus Ad-hoc Committee on Tax Laws on the Allegations of Illegal Alterations on the Gazetted Tax Laws has released an interim report on its findings, accusing the executive arm of government of removing and inserting some items in the bills passed by the parliament. The chairman of […]
Nigerian Lawmakers Confirm Gazetted Tax Acts Were Altered After National Assembly Passed Them
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s House of Representatives minority caucus said on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, that several tax reform laws recently published in the official government gazette were unlawfully altered after being passed by the National Assembly and signed by President Bola Tinubu. The finding was contained in an interim report by an ad hoc committee set up by the Minority Caucus to investigate discrepancies between the versions of the…
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