The governance tax: How Nigeria’s broken institutions starve the state of revenue

Nigeria’s biggest downstream firms pay income tax of N5.2bn in H1

Nigeria’s biggest downstream firms paid N5.2 billion tax to the Federal Government in the first six months of 2022

For decades, we have diagnosed our fiscal anaemia as a failure of tax policy. We were wrong. The real crisis is a failure of state. If the Nigerian state were a patient, its persistent fiscal weakness would have been misdiagnosed for a generation. The symptoms are clear: an inability to fund basi

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