Lagos PDP governorship aspirant flags conflicting variations of tax regulation

Lagos State governorship aspirant beneath the Peoples Democratic Party, Funso Doherty, has raised considerations in regards to the existence of a number of variations of the regulation on official authorities platforms.

In a current open letter addressed to the Chairman of the Nigeria Income Service, Zacch Adedeji, Doherty stated he found two completely different gazetted variations of the Act on the NRS web site, regardless of assurances from the company that no alterations had been made after the regulation was handed by the Nationwide Meeting.

“On 6 January 2026, I downloaded two completely different gazetted variations of the Nigeria Tax Administration Act from the NRS web site,” Doherty wrote. “One of many variations accommodates provisions which can be materially completely different from the model launched by the Nationwide Meeting, elevating questions on which model of the regulation the NRS is implementing.”

Doherty, a public and monetary analyst, stated he was prompted to jot down the letter after a current interview with the NRS Chairman on Come up Tv, through which the official dismissed claims of controversy and insisted the company was implementing the regulation as transmitted by the Nationwide Meeting.

“The web site hosts two separate obtain hyperlinks, every producing a special model of the laws,” he stated, describing the event as troubling for transparency and the rule of regulation.

He additionally famous that the identical discrepancy seems on the Presidential Committee on Fiscal and Tax Reforms web site, the place two variations of the Act are reportedly obtainable for public obtain.

The open letter was copied to the Lawyer-Common of the Federation, the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal and Tax Reforms, and the Lawyer-Common of Lagos State.

The controversy comes amid public debate over alleged post-passage amendments to key provisions of the tax reform legal guidelines, just lately authorised by the Nationwide Meeting as a part of the Federal Authorities’s broader fiscal and income reforms. Stakeholders, together with tax professionals, companies, and civil society teams, have beforehand raised considerations about potential alterations to the laws.

Officers concerned within the reform course of have persistently denied the allegations, sustaining that the legal guidelines being applied are according to these authorised by lawmakers. As of the time of submitting this report, the Nigeria Income Service had but to challenge an official response to the considerations raised in Doherty’s letter.