Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- If President Tinubu is to wind up on the positive side of history, the various measures his government is taking now to lighten the economic burden of lowly placed Nigerians must succeed. Hence, the ongoing efforts to harmonise taxation in such a way that the current regime of multiple taxations (including ad hoc unreceipted levies collected on the highway by local government thugs) must be a thing of the past.

One major aspect of the proposed tax reform bills before the National Assembly is the exclusion of those earning less than one million naira per annum from taxation. Nigerians have overwhelmingly endorsed this aspect of the proposed legislation in order to let the poor breathe.

But it seems the new thinking of...