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Why govt’ll tax first class, business class air tickets, others – Adeosun

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August 3, 2017
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Kemi Adeosun

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First class and business class air tickets as well as other luxury goods would be taxed, the Federal Government has said.

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, made this known in a “question and answer session” with Nigerians on Thursday on Facebook.

Answering a question on the possibility of taxing luxury goods, she said:

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“We signed something yesterday on luxury goods; champagne, brandy, whiskey, wine, jewelry, high-end jewelry…

“We’ve signed something that will bill access charge on first class and business class tickets, we are just doing the final parts of the implementation and we also want to try and amend the tax payer book on high end cars, luxury cars.”

She said the fund raised from the tax would be used in making the nation a better place to live as it was the case in the past.

Read also: Nigeria will continue to borrow to implement ERGP – Adeosun

She said further:  “If we move our tax-to-GDP ratio up, it means two things: One, we will be able to provide more services to our people. Many of the things we are not able to do are function of the fact that we don’t have enough money.

“We need to build more schools, we need to build more hospitals, we need to build more roads. This is not rocket science. Every country has challenges, there is nothing we are facing that other countries haven’t faced.

“Every poor nation has very poor tax compliance rate and every rich nation has high compliance rate. So we want to be a properous nation. So what is in it for the citizens? If everybody pays, there will be far more money in the pool to be spent on the services that we need.

“These things are what we call public goods, and they are funded from taxes. If you have been all around the country, you’ve seen the need, you’ve seen the number of people that are living in poverty, we can lift people from poverty if we have the right money.

“We could do so much more in the economy if we had the money. If our public school system improves, many people who are currently paying school fees will move their children back into the public schools.

“A lot of people that are very successful today were educated in public schools because the public schools were good; we can recreate that. Same with health system. A lot of people die needlessly because we don’t have the right health facilities.”

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