Bauchi can boost revenue by taxing social media firms – APM governorship candidate

The governorship campaigner of the All Progressives Movement (APM) successful Bauchi State, Dr Yakubu Adamu, has said the authorities tin summation its internally generated gross by tapping into its ample basal of societal media users.

Speaking successful an interrogation with Radio France Internationale (RFI) Hausa, Adamu argued that Bauchi should person a stock of the gross generated by large societal media companies.

“Considering the ample fig of radical utilizing societal media successful this state, we should beryllium receiving a stock of the revenue, but we person ne'er received adjacent a kobo from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and different modern platforms. We privation to retrieve these funds from these companies truthful that our gross tin increase,” helium said.

The APM campaigner besides stressed that attracting investors requires the authorities to make a business-friendly environment.

“A institution volition not travel unless you supply opportunities oregon make a favourable situation for it. For example, however volition you marque taxes easier for investors? How volition you supply onshore for them to operate? How volition you simplify regulations and amended information truthful that erstwhile they come, they volition consciousness assured and comfortable?” helium said.

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