Hey guys have you seen this,
CBN directs banks to impose 0.5% cybersecurity levy on all transactions Two weeks from now any fiat transaction Nigerians makes a levy fee of 0.5 per cent will be charged from your account and according to the government they tagged it cyber security levy, and this is outside other already existing bank charges we have been paying for before now. You can read the full news in details here
https://punchng.com/cbn-orders-banks-to-charge-0-5-cybersecurity-levy/Is this government just all about taxes? I remember when President Bola Tinibu made mention that they'll increase the tax net, let the net get bigger and take in more taxes, every thought he was joking, I think this is just the beginning, they're aware that people would complain and there would be protest here and there if they directly imposed more taxation on every citizen so they decided to use different methods of doing so.
This is very unfair to citizen it's not going to help our country in any way, were currently undergoing economic crisis, people could barely feed three square meals currently and all they could come up with is a form of extorting money from citizens all in the name of Cyber security levy instead of looking for ways of boosting the economy, attracting more foreign investors and increase the salaries of workers.
Normally the main purpose of taxation is to generate revenue for the government to use in providing a stable economy, build infrastructures, create job opportunities, help finance government and public sector but in our country it's the other way round, majority of people in the government sector steal public funds and leave citizens with peanuts to survive with.