The Govt Chairman of the Nigeria Income Service, Dr. Zacch Adedeji, has requested lower-cadre earnings earners to look out for his or her January wage to identify the affect of the nation’s new tax legal guidelines in comparison with defunct legal guidelines.
Adedeji, talking throughout TVC’s Journalists Hangout on Tuesday, stated lower-cadre earnings earners would expertise decreased taxes, which might be mirrored in January 2026.
He defined that new tax legal guidelines sought to guard Nigerians, to not improve their burden.
In line with him, the brand new legal guidelines state that vital gadgets that might hamper Nigerians’ disposable earnings, reminiscent of meals and transportation, are exempted from transactional taxes.
“By the point the wage is being paid by the top of January, the wage earner in that decrease cadre will verify in comparison with what they’ve paid beneath the previous legislation,” he stated.
He informed Nigerians to disregard the rumors and claims peddled across the new tax legal guidelines.
“You possibly can see now that we’re on the thirteenth of January, all these myths… You possibly can see that these issues have been nowhere to be discovered,” he added.
