Senior lawyers yesterday faulted the claim by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami , that the Value Added Tax is on the Exclusive Legislative List.
“In the absence of a law passed by the national assembly in that direction, no state can have a valid claim to a collection of Value-Added Tax. But another senior lawyer, Mr. Ahmed Raji expressed the belief that Malami was misquoted, not heard properly, or misrepresented in his claim that VAT is on the Exclusive Legislative List.
The appellate court had ordered the Rivers and Lagos State governments to maintain the status quo, pending the resolution of the legal dispute on the matter. Specifically, the human rights activist contended that the federal government “cannot collect VAT or any other species of sales, or levy other than those specifically mentioned in items 58 and 59 of the Exclusive Legislative List of the Constitution.”
Falana said in 2020: “The total VAT collected was N1.53 trillion. Apart from the allocation of 15 per cent to the federal government, the FIRS deducted four per cent as a collection fee while the Nigeria Customs Service deducted seven per cent from import VAT. There are some criteria involved in the distribution of FIRS that ought to be reviewed.”
He, however, explained that the federal government might wish “to propose an amendment to the Constitution by putting VAT in the Exclusive Legislative List since another constitutional review is in progress. The senior advocate noted the judgment of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt Division held that the VAT was not a matter within the Exclusive Legislative List.
He, therefore, contended that the VAT “is not on the Exclusive Legislative List at all. If indeed it were on it, why would FIRS write a letter to the National Assembly, seeking to put VAT on the Exclusive Legislative List?”
What amount of tax revenue come from Cattle sales. You sell your cattle, pocket all proceeds and they reach and grab VAT from other States to redistribute to Cattle producing areas
Government is supposed to work for Nigerians. The antecedents of this FG has shown the contrary.
What kind of a human being is this?
That fraud is no better than a charge and bail lawyer.
Please tell that mugu SAN
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