States VAT collection charts path to Nigeria’s fiscal federalism

September 13, 2021

Nigeria’s states will struggle to collect VAT

Nigerian states have not put the necessary mechanisms in place to extract VAT

The move by the Lagos and Rivers state governments to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) in their states could serve as a starting point in achieving true fiscal federalism in Africa’s biggest economy. Fiscal federalism demands that each level of government adequately finance its operations without

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