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This question is prompted by the news of the huge tax bill (N248 million, reduced from an initial sum of N1.2 billion) recently slammed by the Tax Appeal Tribunal on a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief J.B. Daudu, SAN. Reportedly made up of arrears of Withholding Tax and Value Added Tax, for the years 2010 – 2017, the said assessment is virtually unprecedented, at least for a professional – let alone a legal practitioner of Chief Daudu’s stature. Accordingly, few would be surprised if he fights it all the way to the Apex Court. I believe the news brings to the fore, the taxing powers of the National Assembly under the Constitution. This appears to be straight forward enough, at least if the provisions of Item 59 of the Exclusive Legislative List are anything to go by. Read along with Section 4(3) of the Constitution, they simply state that the National Assembly shall have the exclusive power to legislate on “taxation of profits, incomes and capital gain

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