Zacch Adedeji, chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service(NRS), says the tax law currently being implemented by the agency is the onlycertified version passed by the national assembly. Speaking on the controversy surrounding the gazetted taxlaw, Adedeji said there cannot be multiple versions of the law, noting that thenational assembly is the sole authority empowered to transmit a certified copy. “There can never be any other one (tax law). If you follownational assembly in December, they said this is the certified copy of the lawwe passed, they printed it, they gave it to me,” the NRS boss said. “They are the only one that can give it, and the only copy Iwill have is the law given to me by the national assembly, which they’ve donepublicly. “They will not only send it to me, they will read to thehouse that this is the certified true copy of the law. It was well distributedeverywhere, and that is what they sent to us.” He said the NRS has no basis to gazette or recognisedifferent versions of the tax law, describing the debate around gazetting as anon-issue. “For us, we don’t have basis to gazette different copies ofthe tax law. There is not even need for it because there can only be one law,”Adedeji said. “Nobody else will have any other documents, apart from whatnational assembly has done.” On December 17, 2025, Abdussamad Dasuki, a member of thehouse of representatives from Sokoto, claimed that the gazetted tax lawsavailable to Nigerians are different from the laws passed by the nationalassembly. In response, the house of representatives constituted aseven-member committee to investigate the alleged discrepancies.
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