Katsina State Government Set To Re-introduce Community And Cattle Tax System

 

Finally, after 65 years of Aminu Kano and Ahmadou Bello removing the colonial cattle tax in northern Nigeria.

The current state government in Katsina has come to realise that with dwindling oil revenue and conflicts between the North and the South cattle tax is a good source of revenue and security control.

As part of a renewed effort to create ways of revenue era, the Katsina State authorities has concluded plans to re-introduce the community and livestock tax machine.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari disclosed this when he obtained Barrister Umar Adamu, the chairman of Tax Appeal Tribunal of the Northwest region and different members on a courtesy visit on the Government House Katsina on Thursday.

Masari stated the nation authorities had constituted a committee that visited all of the 34 LGAs, held metropolis hall meetings to sensitize the people and their respective views on the problem.

According to him, all through the committee’s assignment, many humans attributed that part of the present day insecurity demanding situations may be because of mistaken records or record on possession of livestock both via the people or the herders.

He additionally discovered that his administration is arising with a reform to improve the sports of the country Board of Internal Revenue and other relevant groups to ensure their viability for the benefit of the people and the nation.

The governor referred to that the life of the tax attraction tribunal is quite important for both tax administrators and payers to growing recognition on the difficulty of taxation for financial boom.

He, consequently, stressed the need for adequate sensitization of the humans on the activities of the tribunal to enable it to achieve the desired objective.

“The contemporary revenue allocation formulation from the federation account won't continue all the time, consequently the want for states to plan measures and opportunity assets to face on their ft,” he concluded.

In his commentary, Barrister Adamu the chairman of Tax Appeal Tribunal of the Northwest quarter commended the nation authorities for its foresight and assured that proper sensitization exercising could be performed for the gain of the residents and stakeholders to enable them to reap the blessings of the tribunal.