Churches, Mosques Now to Pay Tax - CONFAB Delegates

DELEGATES at the on- going National Conference
Tuesday voted that henceforth, Churches and
Mosques will be paying tax to the federal
government, just as they also agreed that Federal
and state governments should no longer fund
Christian and Muslim pilgrimages to the Holy lands.
These were part of the resolutions reached
yesterday during discussions of report of Religion
Committee.
The decision to make religious bodies pay taxes
came up when a delegate representing Civil
Organisations, Mallam Naseer Kura during his
contribution on the report had raised it that religious
leaders were making much money and should be
taxed.
Also in his contribution, a delegate representing the
Nigeria Guild of Editors, Isaac Ighure however
frowned at the situation where pastors and heads of
churches make too much money with some of them
owning private jets, just as he stressed that they
should be made to pay taxes and the elite class
must stop abusing the little ones in the society,
"some people buy private jets when people in their
churches are suffering and living in abject poverty,
they should be made to pay taxes."

Sent From David Aniemeka