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<p>By Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa</p><div class="n2d0YVhJ" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>The Presidency has formally addressed recent concerns regarding discrepancies in the newly enacted tax reform legislation, dismissing media reports as based on misinformation. The clarification comes in response to calls from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, lawmakers, and civil society groups to suspend the laws’ implementation, scheduled for January 1, 2026.</p>
<p>The dispute originated from allegations by Hon. Abdulsamad Dasuki, a member of the House of Representatives, who claimed that the versions of the tax laws officially gazetted differed from those debated and passed by the National Assembly. He described this as a breach of legislative due process.</p><div class="4LuCSVEn" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>In a televised interview on Channels Television’s &#8216;The Morning Brief&#8217; on Monday, the Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, refuted these claims. He stated that the committee lacks the final certified copies of the harmonised bills passed by the National Assembly and transmitted to the President, making any comparison with the gazetted versions unverifiable.</p>
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<p>“Before you can say there is a difference between what was gazetted and what was passed, we have what has not been gazetted. We don’t have what was passed,” Oyedele explained.</p>
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<p>“The official harmonised bills certified by the clerk, which the National Assembly sent to the President, we don’t have a copy to compare. Only the lawmakers can say authoritatively what we sent.”</p>
<p>Oyedele also addressed a specific controversy surrounding Section 41(8), which was alleged to require taxpayers to pay a 20% deposit before filing certain appeals. He confirmed that this provision does not appear in the final gazetted version, though it had been included in an earlier draft.</p>
<p>&#8220;What is out there in the media did not come from the committee set up by the House of Representatives. I think we should allow them to do the investigation,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Background on the Reforms</p>
<p>President Bola Tinubu recently signed into law four key statutes: the Nigeria Tax Act, the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, the Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment) Act, and the Joint Revenue Board (Establishment) Act. These laws will be implemented under a unified body, the Nigeria Revenue Service.</p>
<p>The Federal Government describes the reforms as the most comprehensive modernization of Nigeria’s tax system in decades. They aim to simplify compliance, broaden the tax base, eliminate duplicative taxes, and modernize revenue collection across all levels of government.</p>
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