{"id":1006,"date":"2024-11-28T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:22:22","slug":"tax-reform-bills-scales-second-reading-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/tax-reform-bills-scales-second-reading-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Reform Bills Scales Second Reading in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The much contentious Tax Reform Bills , have been passed for second reading by the Senate in plenary on Thursday .<\/p>\n<p>The passage of the Reform Bills\u00a0 totalling four , for second reading by the Senate , was sequel to presentations made to that effect by the Senate Leader , Senator Opeyemi Bamidele ( APC Ekiti Central ) , in general lead debate on them .<\/p>\n<p>After lead debate presentations on the bills by the Senate Leader , many of the Senators who made contributions on the bills like Senators Sani Musa ( APC Niger East), Seriake Dickson ( PDP Bayelsa West ) , Abba Moro ( PDP Benue South) and Senate Whip , Tahir Monguno ( APC Borno North ) , fully supported the bill .<\/p>\n<p>But Senator Ali Ndume ( APC Borno South ) , kicked against the reform bills on the grounds of timing and lack of wider consultations .<\/p>\n<p>The Senate at the session presided over by its President , Godswill Akpabio , accordingly passed the bills for second reading through voice votes .<\/p>\n<p>It therefore mandated its committee on Finance , to organise Public hearing on the bill for inputs from those against the bills like the Governors&#8217;s forum , National Economic Council ( NEC ) , Northern Elders &#8216; Forum ( NEF ) etc and report back within six weeks .<\/p>\n<p>Details later .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The much contentious Tax Reform Bills , have been passed for second reading by the Senate in plenary on Thursday . The passage of the Reform Bills\u00a0 totalling four , for second reading by the Senate , was sequel to presentations made to that effect by the Senate Leader , Senator Opeyemi Bamidele ( [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[602,600,601,599],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-economy","tag-reading","tag-scale","tag-second","tag-tax-reform-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}