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Title
Resolution of Conflicts in the Regulation Of Taxation and Commerce Between the Federal and State Governments in Nigeria |
Full text
http://dspace.unijos.edu.ng/handle/10485/381 |
Date
2002 |
Author(s)
Danwanka, S. A. |
Abstract
This chapter examines the measures taken by the federal government to resolve the emerging conflict between it and the state governments occasioned by the unbalanced allocation of taxing powers that manifestly favour the federal government. This situation consolidates the federal government in terms of financial control on the one hand and makes the states to be too much dependent on the centre for survival. This shows that fiscal federalism is not working properly to achieve its goals of allocating power to states to impose that will enable them to realize revenue to solve their daily problems without necessarily relying on grants from the federal government. Nigeria is a federal State. Federalism, according to Nwabueze, is an arrangement whereby powers of government within a country are shared between a national, country-wide government and a number of regionalized (i.e. territorially localized) governments in such a way that each exists as a government independently from the others and operating directly on persons and property within its territorial area, with a will of its own, and apparatus for the conduct of its affairs and with authority in some matters exclusively of all the others. - Faculty of Law, University of jos |
Subject(s)
Law; Political Science |
Language
en |
Publisher
Faculty of Law, University of Jos |
Relation
Volume 2 |
Type of publication
Article |
Repository
Jos - University of Jos
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