31/12/2025
🚨 Nigeria’s New Tax Regime Is Not Just Multiple Taxation — It Is CONTINUOUS TAXATION
Let’s be clear.
What Nigerians are facing is not simply many taxes.
It is repeated taxation on the same income and the same commodity — from birth to burial.
That is continuous taxation.
🔁 ONE INCOME, TAXED ENDLESSLY
A Nigerian earns income once.
Yet that same income is taxed:
• At source (PAYE / Withholding)
• At receipt (VAT on spending)
• At use (levies, charges, tariffs)
• At movement (road taxes, tolls)
• At survival (electricity, fuel, telecoms, sanitation “fees”)
👉 Same money. Different government hands. Same pocket drained.
That is not taxation.
That is economic recycling of pain.
🛒 ONE COMMODITY, TAXED FROM CRADLE TO CONSUMER
Take one bag of rice:
• Taxed at import or production
• Taxed at transportation
• Taxed at wholesale
• Taxed at retail
• Taxed again at point of consumption (VAT)
At no point does government pause to ask:
“Has this already been taxed?”
That is not revenue policy.
That is institutionalized extortion.
⚖️ WHY THIS IS NOT JUST BAD POLICY — BUT AN ECONOMIC CRIME
A system becomes criminal when it:
• Takes without providing value
• Repeats deductions without justification
• Ignores capacity, income, and survival
• Punishes productivity instead of encouraging it
When taxation destroys the tax base, it is no longer governance —
it is economic sabotage.
🕵🏽♂️ WHY EFCC SHOULD INVESTIGATE — NOT ENFORCE
The EFCC was created to fight economic and financial crimes, not to help execute them.
So ask the hard questions:
• Who designed a system that taxes poverty repeatedly?
• Who benefits from fragmented, overlapping collections?
• Where is the money going — infrastructure or private pipelines?
• Why is compliance enforced, but accountability absent?
If this were a private scheme, it would be called racketeering.
Why should government be exempt from scrutiny?
📉 TAX WITHOUT WHEREWITHAL IS STATE-SPONSORED DESTRUCTION
Taxation assumes capacity to pay.
Remove capacity, and what remains is confiscation.
A hungry man is not a tax evader.
A struggling trader is not a criminal.
A collapsing middle class is not a revenue strategy.
🗣️ THIS IS A CALL FOR AUDIT, NOT ARRESTS
Before more enforcement: ✔ Audit the tax layers
✔ Harmonize collections
✔ Eliminate duplicate charges
✔ Restore fairness and reason
Because a nation cannot tax its people into prosperity —
only into collapse.
✊🏽 Tax justice is economic justice.
✊🏽 Continuous taxation is continuous oppression.
