The Presidency has rejected allegations that inconsistencies exist in the recently signed tax reform laws, insisting that the documents circulating in the media are not genuine.
The response followed claims by a member of the House of Representatives, Abdulsamad Dasuki, who alleged that the tax laws gazetted and released to the public were different from those passed by the National Assembly, arguing that his legislative rights had been breached.
Amid the controversy, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate Peter Obi, and several civil society organisations called on the government to suspend the implementation of the laws.
However, speaking on Channels Television’s Morning Brief on Monday, Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, dismissed the allegations, stating that the documents being circulated were unauthentic.
Oyedele explained that there was no valid basis for comparing the gazetted laws with those passed by the National Assembly, as the officially harmonised bills certified by the Clerk of the National Assembly had not been made public.
He stressed that only lawmakers could definitively confirm what was transmitted to the President, noting that even members of the tax reform committee did not have access to the certified harmonised versions.
According to him, the House of Representatives committee also indicated that it had not met on the issue and that the document in circulation did not originate from it.
Oyedele urged the public to allow the House of Representatives to carry out its investigation into the matter.
It would be recalled that President Bola Tinubu recently signed four tax reform bills into law.
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