Be mindful of APGA’s proposed civil tax bill, Ukachukwu warns Anambra residents

By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA — The governorship campaigner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful the forthcoming November 8 predetermination successful Anambra State, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, has cautioned residents to beryllium wary of a projected Civil Tax Bill reportedly being prepared by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)-led government.

Ukachukwu, who issued the informing during his run sojourn to St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Okpoko, successful Ogbaru Local Government Area, alleged that the bill, if passed into law, would enforce further fiscal burdens connected residents already struggling nether aggregate taxation.

According to him, “a reliable root from the national taxation office” informed him that the projected measure would necessitate some landlords and tenants to wage a percent of their location rents arsenic taxation erstwhile it becomes law.

He claimed the authorities authorities was preparing to fast-track the bill’s transition done the legislature, adding that it would “force Ndi Anambra to wage done their nose.”

Ukachukwu urged voters to cull APGA astatine the polls, describing the projected authorities arsenic “an incoming triple taxation meant to torment the masses.” He assured that, if elected governor, helium would instantly discard the bill.

The APC campaigner besides advised the electorate to defy vote-buying, informing that national information agencies would apprehension some buyers and sellers. He alleged that the ongoing postulation of voters’ names by the authorities authorities was a ploy to facilitate aboriginal taxation deductions alternatively than payment payments.

Ukachukwu further promised to retrieve misappropriated nationalist funds and to prioritize occupation creation, industrialization, and information if elected.

“My blueprint is to present an cultivation worth chain, physique factories, and stabilize information of lives and property,” helium said.