{"id":81151,"date":"2026-01-04T16:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81151"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:26:49","slug":"new-tax-law-fragmented-tax-system-unsustainable-nrs-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/04\/new-tax-law-fragmented-tax-system-unsustainable-nrs-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tax Law: Fragmented Tax System Unsustainable -NRS Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), Mr. Zach Adedeji, has said Nigeria\u2019s fragmented and uncoordinated tax system can no longer sustain the country\u2019s economic needs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Arise News TV, Adedeji explained that the new tax law is designed to streamline tax administration while protecting vulnerable Nigerians, noting that \u201cthe poor are the major beneficiaries of the new tax law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed claims of discrepancies in the legislation, describing them as unfounded rumours, and reaffirmed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s commitment to removing bottlenecks in the tax system.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the reform is aimed at \u201ctaxing right, not taxing more,\u201d to ensure fairness, efficiency, and improved compliance.<\/p>\n<p>On the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the French Government, Adedeji said the agreement is a standard operational arrangement and poses no risk to Nigeria\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>He added that resistance to the new tax law is largely coming from powerful interests who benefit from the existing inefficient system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), Mr. Zach Adedeji, has said Nigeria\u2019s fragmented and uncoordinated tax system can no longer sustain the country\u2019s economic needs. Speaking on Arise News TV, Adedeji explained that the new tax law is designed to streamline tax administration while protecting vulnerable Nigerians, noting that \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1756,172,1719],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news","category-tax","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81153,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81151\/revisions\/81153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}