{"id":11611,"date":"2024-12-23T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2024-12-23T21:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:09:52","slug":"tax-reforms-here-to-stay-says-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/tax-reforms-here-to-stay-says-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax reforms here to stay, says Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration\u2019s tax reforms have come to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Nigerian leader stated this on Monday night while speaking during his first presidential media chat in Lagos State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tax reform bills, which are before the National Assembly, have generated controversies and met push back especially from the Northern leaders, forcing the lawmakers to initiate consultation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, Tinubu stated that the reforms are in favour of the poor and might not be embraced by everybody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said, \u201cThe tax reforms are here to stay. The reform is pro-poor and it is to widen the tax net, so we can have more people paying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe hallmark of a good leader is the ability to do what you have to do at the time it ought to be done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">More to come\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration\u2019s tax reforms have come to stay. The Nigerian leader stated this on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11612,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions\/11612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}