Pay your taxes, govt needs to make money – Wike tells Nigerians

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has called connected Nigerians to wage their taxes, saying the authorities astatine each levels needs to marque wealth to supply societal services to Nigerians.

Wike made this telephone connected Wednesday successful Abuja astatine the archetypal variation of the Abuja Business and Investment Summit organised by the Abuja Investment Company Limited.

He said the taxable of the event, ‘Optimising Investment Through Partnerships’, resonates with the Federal Government’s thrust to deploy the powerfulness of collaboration to foster concern opportunities.

According to him, the conception that the authorities does not request wealth was incorrect.

While citing examples of the government’s concern with the backstage assemblage that went sour, Wike said the authorities won’t proceed to perpetrate billions of naira and onshore to investors who can’t warrant a instrumentality connected investment.

“These are the kinds of things the authorities looks into and accidental however tin I bring successful the wealth and the onshore and astatine the extremity of the day, the authorities volition not marque a dime?

“When radical accidental the authorities is not to marque money, who told you that? If the authorities is not to marque money, however bash we person wealth to supply services? The authorities needs money.

“That’s wherefore the authorities says wage your tax; it’s precise important. And so, portion we supply the enabling environment, we besides judge that we person to promote you (investors) truthful that you get what you are expected to get and the authorities gets what it is expected to get. That way, everybody volition spell location smiling,” helium said.