yesterday May 27th voted unanimously for
churches & mosques to pay taxes. The delegates
arrived at the decision after deliberating on
recommendations made by the
Committee on
Religion.
A delegate representing Civil Organizations,
Mallam Naseer Kura, during the deliberation
observed that most religious leaders in Nigeria are
now making a lot of money from their
organizations and so should be taxed accordingly.
Supporting his arguement, Isaac Ighure a delegate
representing the Nigeria Guild of Editors, in his
submission said most religious leaders had so
much money now to buy jets while their followers
are living in abject poverty and asked that they
should be made to pay taxes. "Some people buy
private jets when people in their churches are
suffering and living in abject poverty, they should
be made to pay taxes,” he said.
The recommendations to pay tax will be submitted
to the National Assembly at the end of the
conference and if accepted by the National
Assembly, it would then be passed into law. Who
agrees that religious organizations should pay tax?
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