League Holds Workshop On New Tax Reforms Act

The International Friendship League ( IFL), Port Harcourt Chapter, has organised its monthly evening variety meeting and a workshop on the new Tax Reforms Act in Port Harcourt.
The workshop with the theme, “The New Tax Reforms Act: Its Implications on Individual and Corporate Entities in 2026” educated participants on the New Tax Reforms Act and its importance.
Speaking, the State Overseer of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor Pious Idume urged Christians to pay tax, saying that it is important to be passionate and live an exemplary lives as Christians.
Pastor Idume, took the sermon from the book of Matthew 17: 28, Isaiah 4:13 and Matthew 22:16 -21 to buttress the point of paying tax promptly.
“God said there is need for every citizen to pay tax. It is important to be passionate to live an exemplary life. Prompt payment of tax is obidient to God’s law and practical demonstration of loyalty,” he said.
The State Overseer emphasised that every Christian should give God their heart as it belongs to Him.
While delivering his lecture, a Prof of Taxation, Prof Ezekiel Edem Williams said the New Tax Reforms Act means bringing all taxes into digital system and one tax web, adding that this new system is devoid of multiple taxation.
According to him, the act favours low income earners, as it will not directly affect them, saying that death and taxation are the two things in life.
“Taxation is where government does all its expenditures, that is why it is important to pay tax. If you don’t pay tax, the government will be transgressing,” Prof Williams said.
Also speaking, Prof Uche Jack- Osimiri explained that in the new Tax Reforms Act, citizens have the right to hold government accountable on how tax monies are spent.
“We are obligated to pay tax. It is mandatory to pay tax, if you do not pay tax, you make yourself vulnerable. Government too has to play its role by providing security and other social amenities, the good thing is that in the new law, citizens can ask government how the tax monies were spent,” Prof Jack-Osimiri said.

By: Tonye Orabere