An Abuja-based insurance broker, Mr Angus Uzoamaka, has said that payment of tax by Nigerians and companies are necessary for the country’s bail out from recession.
Uzoamaka said this in an interview with newsmen while commenting on ways of resuscitating the ailing economy in Anuja on Wednesday.
He said that the attitude of paying tax must be cultivated by Nigerians for not only economic stability but wealth creation.
‘’Evasion of tax has been the major blow on Nigeria’s economy; it has degenerated to a level that nobody wants to pay tax again.
‘’Yet everyone is expecting much from government. Greater economies of the world do not play with tax because it is the basis for stronger economy,’’ he said.
Uzoamaka, who urged governments at all levels to engender policies aimed at ensuring strict and adequate taxation regime, said it was roadmap toward a prosperous Nigeria.
He explained that infrastructural development could not be realisable without a collective responsibility of the citizens to pay tax.
The broker noted that corruption had been the bane of administrative sublime in the country, saying that it was time to completely eliminate it from the tax regime.
According to him, most people don’t pay tax because of suspicions of corruption on the part of the managers of the ‘’tax payers’ money’’.
Uzoamaka called for total support of Nigerians for the APC- led Federal Government, which he said. could not do much without the people’s support.
He, however, described governance as a symbiotic engagement which required the cooperation of the governed for a success.