Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, says the proposed value-added tax (VAT) increase by the federal government is in violation of the law if the national assembly has not passed a bill to that effect.
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, had announced that the federal executive council (FEC) approved an increase in VAT from five per cent to 7.5 per cent.
Source: leadership.ng
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