The House of Representatives Minority Caucus Ad-hoc Committee investigating alleged distortions in Nigeria’s tax reform laws has confirmed that illegal alterations were made to some of the Acts passed by the National Assembly and signed by President Bola Tinubu.
In its interim report released on Friday, the committee identified the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025, as the most affected. The report followed public outrage after lawmaker Abdulsamad Dasuki raised concerns over discrepancies between the versions passed by lawmakers and those published in the official gazette.
In its preliminary findings, the committee stated: “There were some alterations as alleged, especially in the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025. There were three different versions of the documents in circulation.”
It added that the directive to “align” the Acts with the Federal Government Printing Press showed “procedural anomalies” that “illegally encroached on the core mandate of the National Assembly.”
Among the discrepancies identified, the committee noted that Section 29(1) reduced the individual reporting threshold from N50 million to N25 million in the gazetted version, describing it as “a clear case of the executive undermining legislative powers.”
It also faulted the insertion of Sections 41(8) and 41(9), which imposed a mandatory 20 per cent deposit for tax appeals, stating that “these sections were not in the authentic version.”
The report further accused the gazetted Act of unlawfully expanding enforcement powers, allowing arrests and asset sales without court orders, and removing petroleum tax and VAT from federal taxes, calling it “an affront to the exclusive powers of the National Assembly.”
The committee also criticized provisions mandating dollar-based tax computation for petroleum operations, contrary to the approved version.
On the Nigerian Revenue Service Act, it said parliamentary oversight provisions were removed, describing this as “total disregard and disrespect of the institution of the National Assembly and the doctrine of checks and balances.”
I suspect they has received January salary and really touch them
And they’re already deducting our money oo
Anything to steal from somebody, nah him tinubu Dey sign
…and then do absolutely nothing. Na Tinubu, he is the god of Nigeria. The unquestionably emperor. As your lordship pleases
If they can alter the names of people that will receive presidential pardon, what can they not do?
What Nigerian government cannot do does not exist
Nothing una go still fit do baba T
That means Mr Oyedele has been giving Nigerians false information. If they allow this to pass then more bills will be tempered with or this has already been going on before and it has just been exposed
What the next step
Who takes the blame
I mean who is going to jail for doing that.
I think under APC, everybody na saint
They knew about it since they just want it to start operation first.