We have always believed that Tax is what every government or nation needs as a system to generate fund for social amenities as this will help in the country’s constant progress
And this tax system is something that has existed for years even before many of us were born because we believed our forefathers paid tax in their days, so every citizen believes tax is mandatory since it helps in developing many areas in a functional government if properly managed.
Citizens of a country will always want to pay 💰 tax if the government properly account for the taxes paid by always encouraging the people through making sure that there is constant development in the expected fields in the country, but revise will be the case whereby taxpayers are not seeing anything tangible from the government even after paying tax.
This very situation is what we the citizens of Nigeria 🇳🇬 are experiencing from the government because we are not seeing any forms of development which is a very big issue and one that is very discouraging at this point in my country.
Accountability of tax and taxpayers funds should be made physical through the establishment of:
Public Healthy
Infrastructures
Security
Education
Employment
Honestly speaking, I will tell you that as a citizen that non of this areas of amenities are functioning properly in my country Nigeria 🇳🇬. And that at this very stage, the government are struggling which lacks accountability with all they are reaping off from the citizens. And in situations like this one is baffled 😕 from what they are using the tax fund for despite how other bigger companies pay huge tax apart from the masses .
Right now I can tell you how bad the tax law is in my country because the citizens don’t want to hear the mention of tax, although the government has channeled their attention to the bigger companies who mostly are manufacturers of consumers goods and others who are importers of finished goods, reaping them off through tariffs while the end result is channeled to high cost 💲 of living that affects the final consumers know as the citizens.
We see little or no developments matching up from these tax they keep collecting because even while the citizens are not paying attention to paying tax, the so called government are still making sure to collect it either through the bank charges by charging the banks while the banks 🏦 are charging the citizens. Its indeed a critical situation. This many citizens are not aware of due to distractions. And even apart from bank charges, citizens are paying these tax double from also the transportation system through which gas ⛽️ was tripped from what it use to be and how the supermarkets and other services providers keep charging Value Added Tax ( Called VAT). These are all plans from the government.
However, I see this situation as one that has no solution and unless a good structured government is put in place which we are not expecting anytime soon. Why because when a structure is bad, it goes a long way affecting many other things. I feel like those managing the tax fund are not accounting for them properly and this has continued to affect the social amenities , corruption being why no one is asking for accountability.
This is my response to the featured content for week 160, edition 03, tagged “TAX IS TAXING”.
Thanks for reading friends ❤️💕
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