Malaria taxes or basket water? — Business — Feyi Fawehinmi

[Joe Attueyi]

 Feyi Fawehinmi's writings are worth following. An economic education in its own right 

Joe

http://m.guardian.ng/business-services/malaria-taxes-or-basket-water/

"....All of this perhaps explains the desperation with which FIRS has been hounding businesses to pay taxes. It is not looking for money to treat malaria in children. It is looking for money to pay salaries. It is true that the current budget has the largest capital spend on record but this was achieved by dramatically increasing the size of the budget. That is, it did not take money away from unproductive spending designed based on high oil prices, it just added the capital spending on top of the old system. You can see how dangerous this is – we are now looking for money to pay salaries as well as to build roads and treat malaria while oil prices have crashed. But why should taxes be used to pay salaries that have done nothing for Nigerians?

Please pay your taxes – it is the good and proper thing to do. But oil money is different from tax money. So if you want your taxes to go towards building roads and treating malaria in children, do as my friends at BudgIT say you should do – Ask Questions. Or else your money is going into a leaking basket."

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[afis 'Deinde]

This is a business advice, not from populist perspective, that's from Greed.

In any modern country, those who hate to pay taxes more than others, are business owners.

I hate taxes, and I will be tempted to vote for a Romney if not for one black guy named Obama. I would have been tempted to support Trump if not for his Racism, homophobia, islamaphobia and all Human-phobia, except his Love for "basketful of Deplorables".

So what is new if a Feyi Fawehinmi advises business people against taxes and fabricates  reasons he/she believes are why govt is taxing the rich. Feyi has to give a reason why he/she opposes taxation.

On whether the govt will use the taxes to pay wages, that's in the interim, a short term usage. In the long run, if I can get recollect, Lagos, Ogun and others under AC/APC have at one time or the other, trimmed down the workers number. I am quite sure their first step is to computerize the labor force, and to wean out the ghost workers.

At least that was what Tinubu did in Lagos, and many were caught inflating their age, backdating their employments so that they could collect huge retirement funds.

Without knowing what's going on in the federal govt at present, but since Adeosun, a trusted hand is there, I bet they are reconfiguring the computers and making sure ghost workers that Okonjo-Iweala and her partners in crime placed on paper, are AloNtilo, dey go dey go dey gone!

You can't stop paying workers on an assumption. After removing the ghosts, then government can use money for malaria.

Shikena 
Afis

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