President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday inaugurated a 400-level Economics student, Orire Agbaje, from the University of Ibadan (UI) and others as member of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms.
Agbaje, who is the president of the Nigerian Universities Tax Club, was inaugurated alongside other committee members by the president on Tuesday in Abuja.
The statement reads, “One of the members of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, inaugurated on Tuesday by President @officialABAT, is Miss Orire Agbaje. She is a 400-level Economics student at the University of Ibadan, also serving as the President of UI tax club, President of The Students Entrepreneurship and Innovation Hub UI and a Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) Scholar.”
The committee, chaired by Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at Price Water house Coopers, Taiwo Oyedele, has a one-year mandate divided into three main areas: fiscal governance, tax reforms, and growth facilitation.
Comprising tax specialists and important figures from the private sector, the committee’s primary objective, according to the Nigerian government, is to enhance revenue collection efficiency, ensure transparent reporting, and promote the effective utilisation of tax and other revenues to boost citizens’ tax morale, foster a healthy tax culture, and drive voluntary compliance.
In his address at the inauguration held at government house Abuja , Zaccheus Adedeji, the special adviser to the president on revenue, said members of the committee were carefully selected based on their pedigree, years of experience, competence and professional integrity.”
“Mr President, these highly accomplished men and women with proven records of performance in their careers which cut across various sectors of our national life have accepted the honour to serve their country because they share in your vision of a better, more inclusive and more prosperous Nigeria,” he said.
Mr Adedeji noted that the inauguration of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms will allow Nigeria to further engage with various stakeholders to identify their pain points and critical concerns bothering tax and fiscal policies and to collectively develop the solutions necessary to address these challenges in a holistic manner.
“On account of the work the committee sets out to do, our business environment will become more conducive for local and foreign investment, wealth will be created that will boost government revenue and our country will be better for it,” he said.
