You can’t impose taxes on sex workers, illicit activities, CSCHEI tells FG

— Says argumentation contradicts planetary efforts to combat net fraud, cybercrime

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

Abuja — A Civil Society Organization, nether the umbrella of the Civil Society Organisations connected Community Advancement and Humanitarian Empowerment Initiative (CSCHEI), has faulted the Federal Government’s caller taxation argumentation requiring enactment workers and individuals engaged successful illicit activities to wage taxes.

CSCHEI, a UN-recognized level supervising and promoting CSOs, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), and NGOs wrong Nigeria’s socio-economic improvement space, said the argumentation contradicts planetary efforts to combat cybercrime and net fraud.

The disapproval follows caller remarks by Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Committee connected Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, who explained that the taxation reforms—set to instrumentality effect successful January 2026—would mandate each Nigerians, including enactment workers and those engaged successful illicit transactions, to wage taxes, since “the instrumentality does not separate betwixt morganatic and illegitimate income.”

In a connection issued Tuesday successful Abuja, CSCHEI’s Director-General, Kunle Yusuff, powerfully opposed the move, arguing that it could undermine the combat against crime.

“Instead of encouraging taxation payments from those engaged successful illicit activities, the authorities should absorption connected shaping the minds of Nigerians positively and promoting integer system opportunities that foster morganatic entrepreneurship,” Yusuff said.

He urged the taxation betterment committee to collaborate with the Ministry of Digital Economy to make programs that steer Nigerian youths distant from net fraud and towards lawful enterprises.

The enactment commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its caller partnerships with CSOs connected anti-corruption advocacy and consciousness programs targeting students successful tertiary institutions, aimed astatine preventing net fraud.

“We promote the EFCC to further heighten its attack by adopting a proactive corruption-prevention mechanism, alternatively than relying connected reactive measures that often beryllium costly and little effective,” CSCHEI added.

The radical further directed its organization members crossed 466 retired of Nigeria’s 774 section governments to integrate “Corruption Enlightenment Advocacy” into their systems successful concern with section assembly chairmen. It said the run would besides beryllium extended to elder secondary schools to equip students with cognition and values to defy corruption.

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