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Why Nigeria cannot tax its way to a trillion dollar economy

Nigeria has set itself a fiscal target, and almost no one disagrees with it. By the government’s own reckoning, the state collected tax worth about ten percent of the size of the e

Op-Ed ContributorSeptember 7, 20261 min read
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Nigeria has set itself a fiscal target, and almost no one disagrees with it. By the government’s own reckoning, the state collected tax worth about ten percent of the size of the economy in 2023, among the lowest shares anywhere, and the plan is to push that towards eighteen percent within a few years, closer […]

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