Zacch Adedeji, chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), says the tax law currently being implemented by the agency is the only certified version passed by the national assembly.
Speaking on the controversy surrounding the gazetted tax law, Adedeji said there cannot be multiple versions of the law, noting that the national assembly is the sole authority empowered to transmit a certified copy.
“There can never be any other one (tax law). If you follow national assembly in December, they said this is the certified copy of the law we passed, they printed it, they gave it to me,” the NRS boss said.
“They are the only one that can give it, and the only copy I will have is the law given to me by the national assembly, which they’ve done publicly.
“They will not only send it to me, they will read to the house that this is the certified true copy of the law. It was well distributed everywhere, and that is what they sent to us.”
He said the NRS has no basis to gazette or recognise different versions of the tax law, describing the debate around gazetting as a non-issue.
“For us, we don’t have basis to gazette different copies of the tax law. There is not even need for it because there can only be one law,” Adedeji said.
“Nobody else will have any other documents, apart from what national assembly has done.”
