Tax Reform Bills: Why Senate Suspended Further Legislative Action

FOLLOWING criticisms and pressures on the tax reform bills forwarded to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu for consideration, the Senate yesterday suspended further legislative actions on the bills.

Vanguard gathered that the decision was taken after the leadership of the Senate met with the Presidency on how to resolve the thorny issues that were polarising the polity.

In the Senate, the strongest push back to the tax bills came from the North, with Senator Ali Ndume, leading the pack.

Governors Babagana Zulum of Borno, and Sule Abdullahi of Nasarawa, Northern Elders Forum, NEF, National Economic Council, NEC, chaired by Vice President Kashim Shettima, were among those who kicked against the bills, and urged further and wider consultation.