Nigerian Government dragged before ECOWAS Court over alleged altered Tax Acts

The Nigerian authorities has been dragged to the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Court of Justice implicit alleged unlawful alterations to the country’s recently gazetted taxation laws.

The ineligible suit was filed by the Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development, NEFGAD, a frontline civic advocacy group, nether lawsuit fig ECW/CCJ/APP/10/26.

The enactment follows NEFGAD’s earlier correspondence to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the enactment of the National Assembly, demanding an autarkic probe and due sanctions implicit the alleged changes.

NEFGAD raised concerns that definite provisions of the taxation authorities whitethorn person been altered aft transition by the National Assembly and statesmanlike assent, a assertion partially confirmed by the Assembly’s interim review, which flagged important institutional, constitutional, and antiauthoritarian issues.

In its suit, NEFGAD is seeking judicial reappraisal of the legislative process that led to the post-assent amendments, a declaration that the alterations are unauthorized, and the annulment oregon striking down of the altered Tax Administration Act, 2025, and related laws.

The organisation is besides requesting that lone the archetypal texts passed by the National Assembly beryllium recognized arsenic law, and that the authorities nutrient certified existent copies of the Acts for nationalist enforcement.

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