Tax Reform And Administration In Nigeria

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The recent global crisis in the world has brought to the fore the need to note that this overdependence on oil creates unnecessary shocks and thus, the need for diversification of the nation’s resource base and long term growth path. The oil is an exhaustible and dwindling resource, while taxation is the only non-exhaustible veritable source of resource and revenue generation to the government both at the tiers of government.(Oloyede, 2010:1). Nigeria is a monolithic economy with strong dependence on the oil sector; this over-dependence makes …