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.”
On December 17, 2025, Abdussamad Dasuki, a member of the
house of representatives from Sokoto, claimed that the gazetted tax laws
available to Nigerians are different from the laws passed by the national
assembly.
In response, the house of representatives constituted a
seven-member committee to investigate the alleged discrepancies.
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