{"id":124597,"date":"2025-12-24T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=124597"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:02:20","slug":"nigerias-tax-base-stagnant-decade-after-warnings-oyedele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigerias-tax-base-stagnant-decade-after-warnings-oyedele\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Tax Base Stagnant, Decade After Warnings \u2014 Oyedele"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Daniel Adaji<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria\u2019s tax base remains narrow more than a decade after repeated alarms, with fewer than 10 million active individual taxpayers nationwide, the Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oyedele made the assertion on on Tuesday while delivering a keynote address at the Tax Reform Summit 2026 in Lagos, themed \u201cFrom Reforms to Results: The Lagos Implementation Roadmap, Creating a Tax Environment that Works for All.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The summit was convened by the Office of the Special Adviser on Taxation and Revenue in collaboration with the Lagos State Treasury Office.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the figure underscored how little progress Nigeria has made in expanding its tax net, stressing that data-driven reforms at subnational levels are now urgent if the country is to mobilise sustainable revenue.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn Nigeria today, the number of active individual taxpayers is under 10 million for the whole country. I think that is the number we should have for Lagos State alone, and we need to make that possible,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, weak and fragmented data systems continue to undermine fiscal and economic planning, particularly at state level. He said reliable databases covering property registers, individual taxpayers and fiscal operations are essential to improving revenue mobilisation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oyedele also pointed to property taxation as one of the most stable but underutilised revenue sources for states and local governments, saying Lagos alone could generate up to \u20a61 trillion annually if the sector\u2019s potential is fully harnessed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He explained that if just two million properties in Lagos were taxable, with an average value of \u20a6100 million and a modest tax rate of 0.5 per cent, the state could raise \u20a61 trillion every year. Such revenue, he said, could be reinvested in infrastructure and public services, creating a cycle of growth and rising property values.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he warned that success would depend on proper property enumeration, accurate valuation, transparent administration and predictable enforcement.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also called on Lagos State to lead by example by adopting harmonised tax laws and strengthening legal frameworks for collaboration among revenue-collecting agencies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Lagos comments echo long-standing concerns at the national level. A Joint Tax Board report has also put the number of Nigerians paying taxes at about 10 million, a situation Oyedele previously said has denied the country huge revenue needed for development.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking earlier at a stakeholders\u2019 meeting on the review of the National Tax Policy in Abuja in 2016, Oyedele noted that beyond the small taxpayer base, compliance remains weak, with the country recording only about 10 per cent Value Added Tax compliance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chairman of the then review committee, Prof. Abiola Sanni, said the essence of the policy review was not to increase taxes but to improve them for better implementation, while the Technical Assistant at the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, Chris John Mamuda, urged the committee to consider tax amnesty for SMEs to encourage business growth.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Adaji Nigeria\u2019s tax base remains narrow more than a decade after repeated alarms, with fewer than 10 million active individual taxpayers nationwide, the Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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