Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed has advised the incoming administration to raise the Value Added Tax, VAT from 7.5% to 10%.
According to her, increasing VAT from the current rate would stimulate the country’s economic growth.
Zainab Ahmed made the call during a courtesy visit to the headquarters of VON in Abuja.
In her words:“VAT was one of the ways to increase revenue and we still have to increase VAT because at 7.5 %, Nigeria has the lowest VAT rate in the world, not in Africa, in the world. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Africa average is 18%, when you increase your VAT, your Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow.”
She noted that the government had used the finance bills to block leakages, and strengthen the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigeria Customs Service adding that the government has also done automation of the two institutions through the process.
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