{"id":914471,"date":"2022-01-08T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/nlc-rejects-fgs-plan-to-increase-tax-on-carbonated-drinks\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:41:55","slug":"nlc-rejects-fgs-plan-to-increase-tax-on-carbonated-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/nlc-rejects-fgs-plan-to-increase-tax-on-carbonated-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Rejects FG\u2019s Plan To Increase Tax On Carbonated Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_665135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665135\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-665135 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2018_1large_Nigeria_Labour_Congress_NLC-5-600x319.jpg\" alt=\"NLC Rejects FG\u2019s Plan To Increase Tax On Carbonated Drinks\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-665135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) opposes the federal government\u2019s plans to raise taxes on non-alcoholic and carbonated beverages.<\/p>\n<p>The position of the NLC is outlined in a statement signed by its President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, and released to journalists in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The additional taxes were proposed by the government as a means of deterring sugar overconsumption, combating obesity, and raising funds for the 2022 budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0No Plan To Lay Off Federal Workers, Says Zainab Ahmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, the union believes that increasing taxes on non-alcoholic and carbonated beverages, which is one of the elements of the 2021 Finance Act, will cause citizens further difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the NLC has asked the National Assembly to alter the portions of the Finance Act that reintroduced excise levies on non-alcoholic and carbonated beverages as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NLC The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) opposes the federal government\u2019s plans to raise taxes on non-alcoholic and carbonated beverages. The position of the NLC is outlined in a statement signed by its President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, and released to journalists in Abuja. The additional taxes were proposed by the government as a means of deterring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}