The International Friendship League( IFL) Port Harcourt Chapter, on Sunday organised its monthly evening variety meeting, at the Azny Palace, off Abacha road, GRA, in Port Harcourt.
The meeting with the Theme: ” The New Tax Reforms Act: It implications on individual and corporate entities in 2026″ educated participants the new tax Reforms Act and its importance.
Speaking the State overseer of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor Pious Idume , urge Christians to pay tax, saying that it is important to be passionate and live an exemplary life 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 need 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 law and practical demonstration of loyalty”, Pastor Idume said.
The State Overseer emphasized that every Christian should give God their heart as it belongs to Him.
While delivering his lecture, a Professor in taxation 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 was devoid of multiple taxation.
According to him, the act favoured 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 to do 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 Professor Uche Jack- Osimiri, explained that in the new tax Reforms Act citizens have the right to hold government accountable on how tax monies were spent.
“We are obligated to pay tax. It is mandatory to pay tax, if you don’t 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.
