It would be recalled that on Tuesday, January 18, Dr. Rabiu Olowo, the Lagos State Finance Commissioner, while addressing stakeholders at the agreement-signing ceremony by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), local councils, and transport unions, stated that this development became pertinent, as the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s government is committed to a 21st-century economy.
Olowo added that with the N800 daily levy, Lagos transporters would experience a significant drop in the multiplicity of levies they are obliged to pay as they work.
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“The N800 is a single structured collection of the monies payable to all government agencies and parties who are directly or indirectly associated with the transport sector. What the government has done is to organize the collection and reduce the multiplicity of levies and all sorts of taxes, dues, and monies due to the government from the transport unions. Bus drivers will get tax cards, and the issue of arbitrary payments will be eradicated once they pay from the point of their loading each day,”
the commissioner was quoted as saying.
