The Minister of Finance kemi Adeosun was challenged on Tuesday by the senate on Federal Government’s persistence on passing the 2018 Budget in January when less than 50 per cent of the 2017 budget was only implemented. The upper chamber also expressed their opposition as to why the 2017 Budget had no correlation with the 2018 Budget. They insisted the ...
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Lagos and stakeholders move to harmonise tax collection system
“The Lagos State Government is brainstorming with stakeholders in the business environment to harmonise tax collection system in a bid to nip multiple taxation in the bud.”- PM News Issues, such as multiplicity of taxes, rates, illegal levies, harassment of citizens by revenue officers, especially by local governments, among others were brought to the front burner for discuss. Commissioner for ...
Read More »Kemi Adeosun explains 2017 budget figures
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, made it known that the Federal Government would put forward the sum of N6,866,335,052,740 as budget for 2017. According to The Guardian, the Minister told members of the Senate Committee on Finance, led by its chairman, John Owan Enoh (PDP, Cross River Central), that government would present the figure because it spends over ...
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