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The Enugu State Government says the tax it imposed on corpses in mortuaries across the state was not spurred by a revenue generation drive.


[i]The Executive Chairman of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, said this while reacting to the Mortuary Tax circular addressed to all the Mortuary Attendants.[/i]

According to the circular, ESIRS in line with the provisions of section 34 of the Birth, Deaths and Burials Law Cap 15 Revised Laws of Enugu State 2004, approved the implementation of the Mortuary tax.

“The sum of N40.00 only is to be paid by owners of a corpse once it was not buried within twenty-four hours. The amount continues to count daily.

“Kindly ensure that owners of corpses make the payments before collection of the corpses for burial and then remit same to the ESIRS in any commercial bank under the mortuary tax in Enugu State IGR ,” the circular said.

Reacting, Nnamani said that the tax was not new to the state, adding that it was within the Enugu State Mortuary Tax Law which had been in existence for years.

According to him, the amount to pay as the mortuary tax was N40 daily, not N40,000.

“It is an indirect tax paid by mortuary owners, not deceased family and it is just N40, not N40,000. Since its introduction, nobody has been denied burying their dead ones.

“It means that if the corpse stays in the mortuary for 100 days, the mortuary is expected to pay to the state a sum of N4,000.


“The tax is not meant to generate revenue but to discourage people from taking their dead ones to the mortuary all the time,” Nnamani stressed.

Sources: https://dailypost.ng/Why-Enugu-govt-imposed-tax-on-dead-bodies-Revenue-Board

OK I get it now. Let the dead bury the dead and let the living be kind on to each other.
No one lives forever

You mean Enugu state generates money from the dead?

40 naira daily cannot discourage the people from leaving the dead bodies in the mortuary


Just call a spade by its name, na tax you need and I know it will soon increase to the amount una want, this is just to test the reaction of the Enugu people

Oya, let's wait for the defenders from hell to come and defend this as it's not happening outside their shores

Who among the staff of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service would gather liver to go audit corpses in different mortuaties in the state, to make sure of accurate remittance?

This is the handiwork of greedy politicians, their house of assembly should repeal that useless law.

They must say something to justify their actions. They can't agree to have made a mistake. If the mortuary owners pays, who will the person collect the money from? The relatives of the dead will pay directly to the mortuary owners while the mortuary owners pay to the government. More tax to the living.

How is it their business where people choose to keep their deceased? Are the private morgue complaining of inadequate space or anything whatsoever. It would have made more sense if it's a government owned morgue that is imposing this tax .

helinues:
Oya, let's wait for the defenders from hell to come and defend this as it's not happening outside their shores

You bitter jobless man, go and learn internet marketing or graphic design etc. Instead of living on peanut handout paid to you by those who genuinely hate and turned your life upside-down, you operate a known controversial monica on here which if reverse was the case, someone perhaps from the same tribe you were paid to hate would have linked you up and uplift you from your devastating pitiful life of misery and obscurity.

STOP generalizing and complicating a common issue, for your information, this is a decision made by the state govt that the netzines on here is opposing but you who is bile driven quickly jumped in trying to misconstrue facts.
GET A LIFE

Usmanovic95:
How is it their business where people choose to keep their deceased? Are the private morgue complaining of inadequate space or anything whatsoever. It would have made more sense if it's a government owned morgue that is imposing this tax .

But some of your elderly people are blaming the surge in criminality and other depraved acts as a result of the dead not being buried.

I read somewhere were an old woman blamed the spike in raped from the spirits of dead biafran soldiers whose bodies were never reclaimed and given a proper burial.

Make e Dey there one year,if money for cow never ready we no Dey bury.1year na 48k,e never reach money for basket of tomatoes.

RevDesm0ndJuju:


But some of your elderly people are blaming the surge in criminality and other depraved acts as a result of the dead not being buried.

I read somewhere were an old woman blamed the spike in raped from the spirits of dead biafran soldiers whose bodies were never reclaimed and given a proper burial.

Go and discuss with your fellow kindergartners. I have no time for illogical back and forth discussion.

RevDesm0ndJuju:


But some of your elderly people are blaming the surge in criminality and other depraved acts as a result of the dead not being buried.

I read somewhere were an old woman blamed the spike in raped from the spirits of dead biafran soldiers whose bodies were never reclaimed and given a proper burial.

Go and discuss with your fellow kindergartners. I have no time for illogical back and forth discussion.

Lanretoye:
Make e Dey there one year,if money for cow never ready we no Dey bury.1year na 48k,e never reach money for basket of tomatoes.

Oooooo, yeeeee........

As done in the UK


SEE THE concept of death duties.

States have to raise money. Allawee from abuja is not enough, and it takes time to develop natural resources, so taxes it is

Double wahala for dead body and the owner of de body…
Imagine paying tax while alive and being taxed when you’re dead…

And they want the person to rest in peace Abi?

Lagos landlord don open d floor of taxes


Now even d dead isn't left out

Everyday people, that's you , that's me.

Even the dead are not allowed to rest in peace...

helinues:
Oya, let's wait for the defenders from hell to come and defend this as it's not happening outside their shores

Helinues, not everything is a matter for mockery.

Since is not southwest...Igbos don't care. ..

Anyway God bless the good people of Southsouth and

God punish whoever suggested this madness in this tinubulation time..where masses are looking for something to eat...imagine a 18litre cooking oil jumping up from 38k that was sold at Saturday before yesterday to 46k on Tuesday last week.. tinubu will go down in history as the worst president the world ever heard since the world politics began...very heartless old man

Other nearby states mortuaries to benefit from the policy... Lol

If Lagos government start this or any state in the West start the same thing you will see igbo calling it over tax that's responsible for the high IGR of south west.


Even with taxing dead bodies Enugu government can't sur Osun state in IGR generation, this should show you the level of productivity going on in each region.

So person go die now and eno go fit rest in peace again? At least it will encourage people to bury their dead quickly

is OWNER of Corpse not the dead Body ?

Mindlog:
Who among the staff of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service would gather liver to go audit corpses in different mortuaties in the state, to make sure of accurate remittance?

This is the handiwork of greedy politicians, their house of assembly should repeal that useless law.

Sorry o, I want to know why you said "Gather liver"

RevDesm0ndJuju:


But some of your elderly people are blaming the surge in criminality and other depraved acts as a result of the dead not being buried.

I read somewhere were an old woman blamed the spike in raped from the spirits of dead biafran soldiers whose bodies were never reclaimed and given a proper burial.

In that past 18 month, you have not a made any meaningful post devoid of anti-Eastern sentiments.

It is a glaring proof of how much dey have derailed your mental health because they refused to vote the way you wanted..

Never knew you were so weak in the brain.. Condolences to your family in advance till you hang or jump into the lagoon..

Kingpele:
God punish whoever suggested this madness

I don't see it that way. Guess it's to discourage those who keep them for so long. Though I see the "within 24-hours" clause as too short.

As in if the Corpse were to be buried within 24-hours, why take them to mortuary in the first place. Maximum of 1-month before taxing would have made more sense to me.

Haaa! Dead body to pay tax? I Enugu is pdp state pls what is the meaning of this and what type of evil people are in position of piwer these days? These are getting more strange full indeed day by day.

Peooplee shouting petrol, exchange rate, no food yet you are taxing their dead body then the governor kukuma eat the dead body then.

Nonsense!!!

nairalanda1:


Helinues, not everything is a matter for mockery.

Let your message be general not always one sided