The Nationwide Meeting says that it’s reviewing the just lately gazetted tax reform legal guidelines following public backlash on experiences of alleged alterations of some parts of the regulation.
This was made recognized in a press release issued by the Home of Representatives Spokesman, Akin Rotimi, on Friday, December 26, 2025, in Abuja, noting that the Nationwide Meeting management has taken decisive steps to handle the matter to be able to safeguard public curiosity.
Rotimi mentioned that the inexperienced chamber led by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, had inaugurated an advert hoc committee to undertake a “evaluate to ascertain the sequence of occasions and to establish any components which will have contributed to the circumstances surrounding the legislative and administrative dealing with of the Acts.”
The federal lawmaker, who represents Ekiti North (Ikole/Oye) Federal Constituency, mentioned the evaluate “features a cautious examination of any lapses, irregularities, or exterior interferences, ought to any be established.”
NASS directs clerk to re-gazette regulation
Rotimi mentioned the Nationwide Meeting, comprising the Senate and the Home of Representatives, has “directed the Clerk to the Nationwide Meeting to re-gazette the Acts and problem Licensed True Copies of the variations duly handed by each Chambers of the Nationwide Meeting.”
The assertion partly reads, “Current public commentary has targeted on the legislative course of referring to the passage, presidential assent, and publication within the Official Gazette of the Federal Authorities of the next Acts: the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025; the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025; the Joint Income Board of Nigeria (Institution) Act, 2025; and the Nigeria Income Service (Institution) Act, 2025.
“The commentary has raised points regarding the harmonisation of payments handed by the Senate and the Home of Representatives, the documentation transmitted for Presidential assent, and the variations of the Acts subsequently revealed within the Official Gazette.
“The Home of Representatives needs to guarantee the general public that these issues are being addressed strictly inside the constitutional and statutory remit of the Nationwide Meeting.”
Rotimi famous that the Home had already taken institutional motion to handle the issues raised.
In response to the assertion, the evaluate consists of, “A cautious examination of any lapses, irregularities, or exterior interferences, ought to any be established. The evaluate is being performed in full conformity with the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Acts Authentication Act, Cap. A4, Legal guidelines of the Federation of Nigeria, the Standing Orders of each Chambers, and established parliamentary observe.
“As a part of the method, the management of the Nationwide Meeting has accredited administrative steps to make clear the official legislative document.
“In the midst of this evaluate, and within the curiosity of readability, accuracy, and the integrity of the legislative document, the management of the Nationwide Meeting, underneath the President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas has directed the Clerk to the Nationwide Meeting to re-gazette the Acts and problem Licensed True Copies of the variations duly handed by each Chambers of the Nationwide Meeting.’’
Assessment in keeping with legislative procedures
Rotimi requested Nigerians to “enable the Nationwide Meeting’s institutional processes to proceed with out hypothesis or conjecture”.
Rotimi added that the method was being carried out in keeping with established legislative procedures.
“This evaluate is strictly confined to institutional processes and procedures. It doesn’t represent, suggest, or concede any defect within the train of legislative authority by the Home of Representatives or the Senate.
“It’s undertaken with out prejudice to the powers, features, or actions of every other arm or company of presidency, and with out prejudice to any rights, obligations, or authorized processes arising underneath the Structure or every other relevant regulation,” he mentioned.
What you need to know
Recall that on December 17, 2025, a the Home of Representatives,Hon. Abdulsammad Dasuki (PDP, Sokoto), had raised issues over alleged discrepancies between the newly gazetted tax reform legal guidelines and the variations handed by the Nationwide Meeting.
Dasuki, who raised the problem underneath a matter of privilege on the ground of the Home, mentioned his evaluate of the gazetted copies of the tax legal guidelines revealed materials variations from what was debated, harmonised, and accredited by the Home of Representatives and the Senate.
In response to him, the content material of the gazetted tax legal guidelines was not a mirrored image of what the lawmakers debated and accredited.
The legal guidelines are the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025; the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025; the Joint Income Board of Nigeria (Institution) Act, 2025; and the Nigeria Income Service (Institution) Act, 2025.