Nigeria: Tax reform bills will favour the North – Senate Leader

Amid claims that the controversial Tax Reform Bills propose a derivation formula for sharing Value Added Tax (VAT) skewed against the North, the Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, has dismissed the allegations as unfounded saying it would favour the North.

In a Christmas message personally signed by him, Senator Bamidele maintained that the proposed legislation is “guided purely by the principles of equity, fairness, and justice.”

The Senate Leader noted that,…