A delegate representing
Civil Organizations, Mallam Naseer Kura, during the deliberation
observed that most religious leaders in Nigeria are now making a lot of
money from their organizations and so should be taxed
accordingly.
Supporting his arguement, Isaac Ighure a delegate
representing the Nigeria Guild of Editors, in his submission said most
religious leaders had so much money now to buy jets while their
followers are living in abject poverty and asked that they should be
made to pay taxes. "Some people buy private jets when people in their
churches are suffering and living in abject poverty, they should be made
to pay taxes,” he said.
The recommendations to pay tax will be submitted to the National Assembly at the end of
the conference and if accepted by the National Assembly, it would then
be passed into law. Who agrees that religious organizations should pay tax?
