{"id":197830,"date":"2025-05-10T18:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-updated-senate-passes-remaining-tax-reform-bills-rejects-vat-increase-defunding-tetfund\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:40:03","slug":"nigeria-updated-senate-passes-remaining-tax-reform-bills-rejects-vat-increase-defunding-tetfund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-updated-senate-passes-remaining-tax-reform-bills-rejects-vat-increase-defunding-tetfund\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Updated &#8211; Senate Passes Remaining Tax Reform Bills, Rejects Vat Increase, Defunding Tetfund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The two remaining bills passed are the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024 and the Joint Revenue Board Establishment Bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Senate, on Thursday, passed the remaining two of the four tax reform bills proposed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/officialasiwajubat\/?_rdc=1&amp;_rdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Bola Tinubu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The two remaining bills passed were the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024 and the Joint Revenue Board Establishment Bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The bills were considered after the senators debated them at the Committee of the Whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced passage of the bill after a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090441.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two remaining bills passed are the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024 and the Joint Revenue Board Establishment Bill. The Senate, on Thursday, passed the remaining two of the four tax reform bills proposed by President Bola Tinubu. The two remaining bills passed were the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024 and the Joint Revenue Board Establishment Bill. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7898,51322,6721,257,4687,393,9871,6099,8440,10240,8115,254,8352,21603,10007,8328],"class_list":["post-197830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bills","tag-defunding","tag-increase","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-passes","tag-reform","tag-rejects","tag-remaining","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax","tag-tetfund","tag-updated","tag-vat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}