The Federal Government has stated that all income earned in Nigeria, including money made by ‘runs girls,’ is taxable under the law.
Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, made this declaration in a now-viral video clip from a tax education session at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of David, Lagos.
Oyedele clarified the distinction between gifts and payments for services. He explained that upkeep money sent to dependants or relatives is not taxable, describing such transfers as “non-exchange transactions.”
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He explained, “You earn a certain amount of money and you have to send upkeep to your cousin, your brother, even a stranger, it doesn’t really matter.”
He continued, “If the amount you’re sending to someone is money you are giving to them as a gift, that’s not taxable. It is you that should have paid tax before giving them a gift.”
However, he stressed that the law requires taxation once payment is made for a service or product, regardless of whether the activity itself is legitimate.
He added, “If somebody is doing runs girls, right, they go and look for men to sleep with, you know that’s a service, they will pay tax on it.”
He emphasized the neutral stance of the tax law: “One thing about the tax law is it does not separate between whether what you are doing is legitimate or not. It just asks you whether you have an income. Did you get it from rendering a service or providing a good? You pay tax.”
Oyedele urged Nigerians to look at the “broader context of the new reforms,” which he described as the “most far-reaching in the nation’s history.”
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