(UNBELIEVABLE) Churches, mosques now to pay tax

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.”