About the Binance officials that Nigeria government detained, I have a topic about it not quite long and also about how the federal government are requesting for the lists of Nigerians using Binance:
Government demanding from Binance the lists of its Nigerian users“In the last four years, more than $26 billion have been funnelled through Binance without trace.”
It is in the last
one year. I saw some news sites making this mistake.
In all, the major reasons behind this scuffle is just taxation. The Nigeria government just wants binance to pay tax of all transactions they have conducted on the Nigeria binance p2p platform which they want to benefit from that's all. That is a huge amount of money which they know themselves could benefit from through channeling it to other means in the name of projects and other engagements.
Is Binance making money from P2P? I mean from people that are creating ads? Because Binance is not making money from those that are not creating ads because the trading is of zero ( ₦0) cost as fee.
Know that government may demand for the list for investigation of illicit transactions.
My concern now is this, would the federal government charge binance to pay for tax in arrears right from their inception and also charge Nigerians registered with binance to pay tax in same fate as they have begin to put pressure on binance to give them list and details of Nigerians registered with them right from their inception.
Crypto tax was just included in Financial act of 2023. No law to pay crypto tax before that time. Let us see what would happen next.
Detaining Binance executive is wrong. If they want Binance to do something and Binance is not complying, they can sue Binance instead.